EU: TikTok breaches digital services law on the security of children’s accounts
(Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor) - The European Commission has sent TikTok its preliminary findings, which indicate that TikTok accounts held by minors do not meet the safety standards required by the Digital Services Act. On TikTok, minors can choose to set their account to ‘public’, which means that any user, including those without a TikTok account, may be able to view the minors’ content. This setting also allows content posted by ‘older’ minors (aged 16–17) to be recommended to any other TikTok user via the ‘For You’ feed.
The Commission takes the preliminary view that TikTok, in line with the guidelines on the protection of children, should adjust the default settings for children’s ‘public’ accounts so that their content is, by default, visible only to TikTok users whom the child has accepted; under no circumstances should the content be accessible to a global audience outside the platform.
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