{"id":476493,"date":"2023-01-16T09:52:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T07:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=476493"},"modified":"2023-01-16T10:09:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T08:09:55","slug":"tiktok-slapped-with-r91-million-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/476493-tiktok-slapped-with-r91-million-fine.html","title":{"rendered":"TikTok slapped with R91-million fine"},"content":{"rendered":"

TikTok UK and TikTok Ireland have been slapped with a \u20ac5 million (R91 million) fine<\/a><\/strong> for making it hard for users to refuse cookies and not sufficiently notifying them of their purpose.<\/p>\n

The fine comes from France\u2019s data protection regulator \u2014 Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libert\u00e9s (CNIL) \u2014 which deemed TikTok to be in violation of Article 82 of France\u2019s data protection laws.<\/p>\n

The CNIL noted that while TikTok UK and TikTok Ireland offered a simple prompt and button for users to accept all cookies immediately, rejecting them was not as easy and required several clicks to do so.<\/p>\n

“The restricted committee considered that making the refusal mechanism more complex actually discouraged users from refusing cookies and encouraged them to prefer the ease of the ‘accept all’ button,” the CNIL said.<\/p>\n

“It concluded that this process infringed the freedom of consent of Internet users and constituted a violation of Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act.”<\/p>\n

Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act stipulates that services must secure user consent for cookie storage and allow the user to give or deny such permission.<\/p>\n

Therefore, consent dialogues should be balanced and allow the user to choose either option, which was not the case on TikTok’s UK and Ireland sites.<\/p>\n

Despite the CNIL repeatedly warning TikTok of the issue from June 2021, it took the company until February 2022 to add a “Reject All” option.<\/p>\n

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Now read: Twitter working on in-app coins for creators<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It took TikTok until February 2022 to add a “Reject All” option to its cookie consent prompt, despite the CNIL having warned of the issue repeatedly since June 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":458807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[3998,79352,59100],"class_list":["post-476493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-cookies","tag-french-data-protection-agency-cnil","tag-tiktok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476511,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476493\/revisions\/476511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}