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What TikTokinvestigations against Twitter or lawsuits against Instagram reveal how vulnerable minors are on networks.
The Office of the Information Commissioner in the United Kingdom detailed that TikTok would have to pay a fine for £27 million (567 million pesos, approximately) for misusing the information of minors. The fact follows situations, such as the investigation that was carried out in Twitter and was published this weekend, revealing the sexual harassment of underage users within this social network, while new data has been released in the United Kingdom, about access to suicidal content to which he had access Molly Russella 14-year-old girl, before taking her own life.
The activity carried out by children in social networks has given rise to an important scenario that has strategic studies, based on which the performance of small users in these media is measured, which leads to understanding the amount of information that there is of them in these channels.
Inside of the “Children’s News Consumption Survey 2021” I know revealed that the main activity they carry out to identify fake news is to look at the comments, 41 percent of them does; check that the story they are reading appears in other media; while a 35 percent He bet on imagining the situation, to presume if it was a real event or not.
The study provides a dimension of the activity carried out by underage users on social networks and in this spirit we can understand why TikTok is subject to a possible fine of 567 million pesos.
The punishment to Tiktok
From the Information Commissioner’s Office in the United Kingdom, the potential fine was explained to TikTokafter the agency found that the social network processed information from users under the age of 13 years without the consent of their parents and without being transparent in the handling of such data.
“We all want children to be able to learn and experience the digital world, but with the right data privacy protections. Companies that provide digital services have a legal duty to implement those protections, but our tentative view is that TikTok did not meet that requirement,” explained a representative of said office, which is following the case of TikTok.
The subject of how vulnerable minor social network users are is broad. This same week is also being discussed in courts of the United Kingdom, the case of Molly Russella young woman who committed suicide and as stated in the process that is being carried out against Instagramthe social network accused after the death of the minor, Russell would have accessed suicidal content that was recommended to him based on the content he consumed.
During this legal trial against the social network of mark zuckerberg own elizabeth lagon, head of health and well-being in Goalacknowledged that at the time, the content to which the minor had access was safe.