TikTok Information Technologies UK Limited

TikTok was fined for processing the personal data of an estimated 1.4 million children under 13 in the UK without appropriate parental consent between May 2018 and July 2020, and for allowing under-13s to create accounts on the platform despite claiming to prevent this. The ICO found TikTok also failed to use children's data in accordance with its own privacy policy and failed to ensure data accuracy. The investigation drew on the ICO's Age Appropriate Design Code (Children's Code), which came into force in September 2021 and sets out standards platforms must meet when processing children's data.