The UK’s data protection watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), said it wanted to look into how TikTok uses the personal information of 13-17-year-olds to deliver content recommendations to them.
The regulator said it was taking the action in light of growing concerns around how social media platforms were using data generated by children’s online activity to power their recommendation algorithms, and the potential for young people to be served inappropriate or harmful content as a result.
Information commissioner John Edwards told the PA news agency the regulator expected to find plenty of positive safety elements in place across the sites during its investigation, but wanted to ensure their processes were “robust”.
“I will expect to find that there will be many benign and positive uses of children’s data in their recommender systems.
“What I am concerned about is whether they are sufficiently robust to prevent children being exposed to harm, either from addictive practices on the device or the platform, or from content that they see, or from other unhealthy practices.”
Mr Edwards said the regulator was “not picking on TikTok” by making it the subject of an investigation on a topic common across social media, and hoped to understand more about the wider social media landscape through the investigation.
“We’re not picking on TikTok.
“We hope to learn lessons that the whole industry will be able to adopt.”
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