{"id":994579,"date":"2026-02-25T10:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994579"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:31:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:01:45","slug":"uk-privacy-watchdog-fines-reddit-20-million-over-childrens-data-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/25\/uk-privacy-watchdog-fines-reddit-20-million-over-childrens-data-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"UK privacy watchdog fines Reddit $20 million over children’s data failures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain’s privacy watchdog on Tuesday said it had fined social \u200cmedia \u2060platform \u2060Reddit 14.47 million pounds ($19.52 million) for failures related to children’s privacy. <\/p>\n

The Information Commissioner’s Office \u2060said the \u200ccompany broke the rules \u2060by not checking children’s ages properly, meaning it had no right to use data from \u200cunder-13s, and by not doing a required risk \u2060assessment for children until after January 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Britain’s privacy watchdog on Tuesday said it had fined social \u200cmedia \u2060platform \u2060Reddit 14.47 million pounds ($19.52 million) for failures related to children’s privacy. The Information Commissioner’s Office \u2060said the \u200ccompany broke the rules \u2060by not checking children’s ages properly, meaning it had no right to use data from \u200cunder-13s, and by not doing a required risk \u2060assessment for children until after January 2025.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994579","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=994579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}