Monetary penalties · Online technology and telecoms

TikTok Information Technologies UK Limited and TikTok Inc (TikTok)

£12.70mpenalty

Root cause Other or unclassified The published notice did not contain enough detail to classify a single root cause.

What happened

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a £12,700,000 fine to TikTok Information Technologies UK Limited and TikTok Inc (TikTok) for a number of breaches of data protection law, including failing to use children’s personal data lawfully.

Summarised from the notice published by the ICO on 15 May 2023. Read the original notice — it is the authoritative version.