TikTok fined £12.7m for illegally processing children’s data

Information commissioner says app had done ‘very little, if anything’ to check for underage usersTikTok has been fined £12.7m for illegally processing the data of 1.4 million children under 13 who were using its platform without parental consent, Britain’s data watchdog said.The information commissioner said the China-owned video app had done “very little, if anything” to check who was using the platform and remove underage users, despite internal warnings the