For TikTok, German and Italian regulators disagreed with parts of a draft decision issued a year ago, delaying it further. The DPC in Ireland has been criticized for not moving fast enough in its investigations into Big Tech companies since European Union privacy laws took effect in 2018. The Canadian probe continues, a spokesperson for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada confirmed Friday. "Any kind of ruling like that, that comes out anywhere in the world, has potentially positive impacts for Canadian youth." "They typically kind of work in co-ordination," said Smith, who researches openness, privacy and participation in digital society. Ex-TikTok executive says Chinese government used app to locate, identify Hong Kong protesters.In a detailed response posted online, TikTok said it had addressed "most" of the issues at play in the Irish probe - and had done so prior to the start of the investigation. And it nudged teen users into more "privacy intrusive" options when signing up and posting videos, the commission said. It was also found that a "family pairing" feature designed for parents to manage settings wasn't strict enough, allowing adults to turn on direct messaging for users aged 16 and 17 without their consent.
Those default settings also posed a risk to children under 13 who gained access to the platform even though they're not allowed.
The investigation found that the sign-up process for teen users resulted in settings that made their accounts public by default, allowing anyone to view and comment on their videos. News broke on Friday that Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) - the lead privacy regulator for Big Tech companies whose European headquarters are largely in Dublin - was handing TikTok a fine of 345 million euros (roughly $500 million Cdn), following a two-year investigation into its compliance with privacy rules in the latter half of 2020. TikTok faces a hefty fine in Europe from a regulator for past shortcomings in protecting the privacy of younger users, a development that experts say could have implications for Canadian regulators and young people using the popular platform here.
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