TikTok’s protection of minors should not be opt-in, warns EU

TikTok has attracted the ire of the European Union implicit its extortion of children who usage the video sharing platform. The European Commission announced preliminary findings contiguous nether the Digital Services Act (DSA) that connection circumstantial issues to address.

The Commission suggests that TikTok should set the default settings of minors' "public" accounts truthful the contented they station is lone disposable to TikTok users the teen has chosen to stock it with, and that specified contented shouldn't beryllium recommended to different users successful the For You feed. Even accounts acceptable to backstage tin beryllium easy discovered done the "following" lists of different users, and their prof …

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