France slaps TikTok with $5.4m fine
TECHDIGEST – France slapped TikTok with 5 million euros ($5.4 million) for online tracking shortcomings.
A spokesperson for TikTok confirmed the fine in a statement on Friday.
The more widely used smartphone applications for the service were not included in the French data protection authority CNIL’s investigation, which primarily focused on the website tiktok.com.
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“These findings relate to past practices that we addressed last year, including making it easier to reject non-essential cookies and providing additional information about the purposes of certain cookies,” a spokesperson for TikTok said.
The ByteDance-owned company is also in turmoil as Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner Brendan Carr recently proposed the outright ban of Chinese-owned social media in the U.S.
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