Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, September 15th,

2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Big Fine in Europe for Tik-Toc.

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Ireland's Data Protection Commission has fined Tic-Toc

345 million euro after finding it in breach of GDPR

in relation to how it handles children's data and has given

Tik-Tok three months to comply.

Quoting Tech Crunch. In all, Tik-Tok has been found to have violated eight articles of the GDPR, aka breaches of

lawfulness, fairness, and transparency of data processing, data minimization, data security,

responsibility of the controller,

data protection by design and default,

and the rights of the data subject, including minors,

to receive clear communications about data processing

and to receive information on receipts of their personal data.

So it's quite the laundry list of failings.

The decision did not find a breach in relation to methods used by Tik-Toc for age verification,

which has been a flashpoint for it with a number of regional regulators but the

Irish watchdog notes the decision does record a violation of Article 24-1 of

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