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TikTok devoted to data for videos and ads, not artistic expression, UK court told

By Frank Hersey ( May 21, 2025, 19:14 GMT | Insight) -- TikTok’s claims to be a “free expression service” and “special purposes impresario” were challenged in court by the UK data protection authority on the third and final trial day of the video-sharing platform’s appeal of a UK data protection fine. It argued that TikTok couldn’t use protections it invoked for processing personal data because the processing in question was really in the interest of serving videos and ads, including to children too young to be on the platform.TikTok’s arguments against a data-protection fine are fundamentally flawed, the UK privacy watchdog told judges today. It was seeking to use “special purpose” protections for data processing, when in reality it was processing users’ personal data to profile them to serve them videos and ads, the regulator insisted. ...

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