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Reddit fined £14m by Information Commissioner's Office over age verification checks
The UK Information Commissioner's Office fined Reddit £14.47 million for lacking robust age verification and failing required data protection assessments, risking children's exposure to harmful content.
- Today, the Information Commissioner's Office fined Reddit more than £14m after finding the US social platform unlawfully processed children's information.
- The ICO said Reddit failed to `Apply any robust age assurance mechanism and therefore did not have a lawful basis for processing the personal information of children under the age of 13` and missed a data protection impact assessment before January 2025.
- The ICO highlighted that children under 13 had their personal information collected and used in ways they could not understand, potentially exposing them to inappropriate content.
- The ICO said platforms must be confident of users' ages and implement effective age-assurance measures, as Edwards, UK Information Commissioner, called Reddit's failure concerning.
- The ICO warned industry that online services likely accessed by children must protect users, urging companies like Reddit to improve age assurance and data practices urgently.
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Reddit fined $19.6 million over age verification checks in the UK
A common theme in online age verification laws is the tension between user privacy and preventing children from accessing harmful or inappropriate content. Now the UK is sending a not-so-subtle message to Reddit on the subject, to the tune of £14.5m ($19.6 million). The nation's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) accused the company of using children’s data and potentially exposing them to inappropriate content.“Children under 13 had their …
U.K. fines Reddit nearly US$20 million over children’s data failures
Britain’s data watchdog on Tuesday said it has fined online discussion site Reddit £14.5 million (US$19.5 million) over failures to protect children’s personal data, potentially exposing them to harmful content.
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Discussion platform Reddit was fined Tuesday by the UK's privacy watchdog ICO "for violating children's privacy." The fine is...
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