The Growing Importance and Focus on Data Privacy in Technology
In early 2019, viral short-form video platform TikTok settled claims with American regulators that they violated data privacy laws for collecting personal information of children without their parent’s consent. At around $6 million, the settlement was the largest ever for a children’s data privacy case. Seven months later, Alphabet’s crown-jewel, YouTube, was fined $170 million, a record for a fine imposed for child data privacy violations. In between both those instances, it was announced that social-media giant Facebook reached a $5 […]