France imposes a fine of $5.4 million on TikTok for inappropriate cookies and online tracking:
It seems that TikTok just can't catch a break. After getting banned from state-owned computers and mobile devices in over 20 states in the United States of America, where it faces a possible federal-level ban, the social media company was fined $5.4 million by France for inappropriate handling of cookies and online tracking.
France's CNIL or National Commission on Informatics and Liberty, the protection watchdog whose job it is to ensure that all companies operating in France abide by the nation's data laws, said that its investigation only concerned the website tiktok.com and not the service's much more heavily used smartphone applications.
The CNIL discovered that TikTok users who used the web version, found it more difficult to reject internet trackers than to accept them. Additionally, the authority determined that internet users were not adequately notified about TikTok's usage of cookies.
[...] According to regulations set forth by the European Union, websites must expressly request internet users' permission before using cookies, which are little data files saved when a user is browsing the web.
The fine comes just a day after TikTok's CEO, Shou Zi Chew met a contingent of EU officials in Brussels and assured them that TikTok takes data privacy seriously and will work closely with officials to safeguard users.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 16, @09:49PM (1 child)
5.4 million eh... What is this, a fine for ANTS?
Now get back in there and do it properly, ya weasel! And when you've done practicing with the favorite boxing ball of the day, how about you try the same with the real threats: Google, Facebook, et al. Let's see how big your balls really are, or whether they're shriveled up little raisins...
(Score: 2) by looorg on Tuesday January 17, @02:33AM
The sum seems to be very low, what is that $0,0something per user per violation over some limited amount of time. Also it's not like the users that actually got violated will see any of that money. The population of France is like 67 million or there about. Assuming it's only or mostly young people that use Tiktok that is about say 20 millionish people and most of them will probably have Tiktok (and all the other social media things). Still not a lot of cents per users, that they'll still never see.
So could that even be called a fine? Does the Tiktok-accounting even notice if five million bucks comes or goes? It's probably nothing but a minor bump on the curve.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Mojibake Tengu on Monday January 16, @11:06PM (1 child)
DouYin
https://www.douyin.com/ [douyin.com]
It's very different from what you know as TikTok.
The edge of 太玄 cannot be defined, for it is beyond every aspect of design
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Tuesday January 17, @02:36AM
The full article says it's https://www.tiktok.com/ [tiktok.com]
compiling...
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 16, @11:26PM
they are real sweeties
https://www.nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-tiktok-vm-1 [nullpt.rs]