Brazil has fined TikTok’s owner over the way it handled children’s data, and the ruling covers people who never had an account.
The National Data Protection Agency imposed a penalty of 153.7 million reais on ByteDance on Tuesday, worth about $29.9m. It cited irregularities in the processing of data belonging to children and adolescents.
TikTok breached data privacy law across both logged-in accounts and guest browsing sessions, the regulator said in its ruling. It collected and processed young users’ personal information without a valid legal basis or adequate safeguards.
Mauricio Savarese reported the decision for the Associated Press. Agence France-Presse carried the agency’s figures.
The guest-session finding is the part that travels
