TikTokfines & penalties
ByteDance Ltd.
The short-video platform owned by ByteDance. Its EU penalties centre on children's safety and unlawful transfers of user data to China.
- Penalties
- 3
- Total imposed
- ≈ $973.8Mexcludes annulled
- Largest
- $572M
- Span
- 2023 to 2026
Penalties by year
Every recorded penalty
3 penalties
TikTok · 2025
TikTok fined €530M over EU-China data transfers
The Irish DPC fined TikTok for unlawfully transferring EU users' data to China without ensuring equivalent protection, and for related transparency failures.
TikTok · 2023
TikTok fined €345M over children's default settings
The Irish DPC found that TikTok set children's accounts to public by default and had weak age-assurance safeguards, exposing young users' content.
TikTok · 2026
Brazil fines TikTok's owner R$153.7M over children's data
Brazil's data-protection authority fined ByteDance for processing the personal data of children and adolescents without a valid legal basis, across both logged-in accounts and guest browsing, and for failing to stop minors from registering in the first place.