Real regulatory outcomes that show how UK and international child safety law is enforced in practice.
ICO fined TikTok for misusing data of 1.4 million UK children under 13 without parental consent. Platform had to improve age verification and reduce data retention.
£12.7m
ICO • 2023
YouTube fined for collecting children's data without parental consent, leading to creation of YouTube Kids and changes to comment and notification features for children's content.
$170m
FTC (US) • 2019
ICO investigation led Instagram to stop recommending children's accounts to adult users and disable direct messaging from unknown adults to under-18s.
Policy change
ICO • 2021
Guardian AI
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