{"id":1031109,"date":"2026-08-26T07:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T01:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031109"},"modified":"2026-08-26T07:58:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:28:27","slug":"brazil-fines-tiktok-owner-bytedance-for-unlawful-processing-of-teenagers-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/26\/brazil-fines-tiktok-owner-bytedance-for-unlawful-processing-of-teenagers-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil fines TikTok owner ByteDance for unlawful processing of teenagers&#8217; data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil&#8217;s data protection authority, ANPD, has fined TikTok owner \u200bByteDance 153.8 million reais ($29.81 million) for allegedly violating \u200bthe country&#8217;s General Data Protection Law, according to a decision published in the official \u200bgazette on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>ANPD said that the local unit of China&#8217;s ByteDance had processed personal data of teenagers aged 13 to 18 without a valid legal basis. <\/p>\n<p>The regulator estimated that, during the period under review, TikTok may have processed the data of at least 8 \u200cmillion children, reflecting \u2060what it \u2060described as shortcomings in the platform&#8217;s age-verification system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil&#8217;s data protection authority, ANPD, has fined TikTok owner \u200bByteDance 153.8 million reais ($29.81 million) for allegedly violating \u200bthe country&#8217;s General Data Protection Law, according to a decision published in the official \u200bgazette on Tuesday. ANPD said that the local unit of China&#8217;s ByteDance had processed personal data of teenagers aged 13 to 18 without a valid legal basis. The regulator estimated that, during the period under review, TikTok may have processed the data of at least 8 \u200cmillion children, reflecting \u2060what it \u2060described as shortcomings in the platform&#8217;s age-verification system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031135,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031109\/revisions\/1031135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}