Italy gives TikTok two days to respond to user bans without age verification
The Italian data protection agency, GPDP, granted two days until next Friday, TikTok, to respond to the ban of users whose age has not been verified, after it issued this decision last week as a result of the death of a girl who died of suffocation while trying to practice the "blackout challenge" that was published on this network Social.
The Spanish newspaper "Beta" explained that the challenge of the blackout is to prevent children from breathing until they lose consciousness completely, but the agency made clear that the matter will remain in effect until February 15, and at this time Tik Tok has not yet taken any measures or responded to the request. Italian.
The agency raised concerns about children's privacy from TikTok last December, and warned that age verification controls could be easily bypassed, in addition to raising a number of observations about default settings, which make users' content public. The agency opened an official action on December 22, and gave the social network one month to respond.
The girl’s father said that she was participating in the so-called Tik Tok challenge, where she put a belt around her neck and held her breath while photographing herself on her phone, as the prosecution opened an investigation into possible incitement to suicide, and is seeking to find out if someone invited her to participate. In that challenge.
