TikTok fined millions for misusing children's data in UK.

TikTok has been fined £12.7m ($15.9m) by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for breaching data protection laws, including using the personal data of children under 13 without parental consent. The ICO estimated that TikTok allowed as many as 1.4 million UK children under 13 to use its platform in 2020, even though it sets 13 as the minimum age to create an account. The breaches occurred between May 2018 and July 2020, with the Chinese-owned video app not having done enough to check who was using the platform and remove the underage children who were.