Popular short-form video hosting service TikTok has been fined €5 million (about $5.4 million) by the French data protection watchdog for breaking cookie consent rules, making it the latest platform to face similar penalties after Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft since 2020.
“Users of ‘tiktok[.]com’ could not refuse cookies as easily as accepting them and they were not informed in a
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