TikTok has launched a High Court action against the Data Protection Commission’s decision to fine it €345 million for violating children’s privacy. The Chinese social media giant yesterday initiated judicial review proceedings aimed at overturning the DPC’s findings that the video-sharing app mishandled children’s data in multiple breaches of EU law between July and December 2020. The watchdog’s reprimand, published on September 15, found TikTok set children’s profiles to public by default, meaning anyone on or off the platform could see what they were posting. The regulator also found “severe possible risks” in the “family pairing” setting which allowed unverified…

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