TikTok withdraws two appeals in children’s privacy action and accepts £12.7m fine
TikTok has dropped two appeals against the UK Information Commissioner's Office and agreed to pay a £12.7 million fine related to a children's privacy enforcement action. The company is no longer contesting the ICO's findings in those proceedings.
Why this matters: TikTok collected data on children, the ICO penalized them for it, and TikTok fought back. Now it has stopped fighting. That matters because enforcement against big platforms tends to fail quietly — fines get appealed, delayed, or reduced until they become a rounding error. Accepting a £12.7 million penalty is not a huge sum for TikTok, but dropping the appeals means the ICO's findings stand. That gives the regulator firmer ground the next time a platform decides children's data is worth the risk.
Who should care: Lawyers · Privacy officers · Compliance · General readers · Policy
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