. That inquiry could yet turn out to be the most heated to be undertaken by her office given swingeing moves against TikTok by assorted authorities in the United States, Europe, Canada, Britain and India because of security concerns.
In the case to hand, however, TikTok has been found culpable of grave privacy violations against child users and failing to protect their data. In total there were eight infringements of Europe’s general data-protection regulation , a body of law in force for five years which is supposed to impose better control over the exploitation of personal data by big business.
No matter what TikTok claims about the size of the penalty, this is very bad for its reputation. If the company didn’t exercise due care then with children’s data entrusted to it, how can anyone be certain it does now?