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Brazil fines TikTok parent nearly $30 million over child data privacy violations
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Fusion42 · 26 August 2026 · Fusion42 review
Brazil's data protection authority fined TikTok parent ByteDance nearly $30 million for mishandling children's data, citing inadequate legal basis and safeguards, affecting at least 8 million children. The regulator also condemned TikTok's logged-out feed for bypassing age-verification, ordering data deletion and stronger protections with a 10-day appeal window.
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Brazil's actions escalate regulatory risk for social media companies handling minors' data, hitting TikTok hard. You must review your age-verification and data safeguards now or face costly enforcement and loss of market trust.
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1 source · 26 Aug 2026
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