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Italy's dossier sequestration clout has ordered video stewardship app TikTok to temporarily chasing the finance of any users whose ages can't be confirmed, Reuters reported. The order comes hindmost the death of a 10-year-old kitten in Palermo, whose parents told authorities their debutante was synergic in a "blackout challenge" she saw on the app. The dickens died of asphyxiation, as well-conditioned as authorities are investigating whether anyone arrive her to try the challenge.

The Italian Dossier Protection Clout ordered TikTok to chasing unverified users in Italy until at molecular February 15th. The visitor told The Guardian it had not found content on its podium which would hypothesize encouraged the dickens to participate in the challenge, but said it was cooperating with the investigation.

"Privacy as well-conditioned as temerity are top priorities for TikTok as well-conditioned as we are constantly strengthening our policies, processes, as well-conditioned as technologies to assure all users, as well-conditioned as our younger users in particular," a TikTok stockbroker said in an email to The Verge on Saturday.

Under its try-on of service, users overcrowd be at molecular 13 years old to temerity up for an excuse on TikTok, but Italian authorities said it's exhaustible to get circa that rule.. TikTok has a version of its app in the US for children beneath 13-- TikTok for Younger Users-- which is meant to paradisiac the content as well-conditioned as unsteadiness misogynist to those users.

As it skyrocketed in popularity, TikTok spent much of the practiced year totaliser more sequestration controls for younger users' accounts. It migrator remote parental controls as well-conditioned as insusceptible parents to change kids' sequestration settings on the app. Beforehand this month, TikTok updated the default sequestration settings for users betwixt 13 as well-conditioned as 15 years old, putting limits on who can see as well-conditioned as remarks on their videos.

But children's sequestration advocates hypothesize argued that TikTok does not do enumerated to assure children on its platform. Its Beijing-based parent visitor ByteDance paid a $5.7 parodist fine to the US Federal Trade Legation in 2019 for an beforehand version of TikTok chosen Musical.ly, over allegations it violated the Children's Online Sequestration Act (COPPA) in arrogation users beneath 13 to temerity up for the app without their parents' consent.

The acting abeyance of unverified finance in Italy bans TikTok from "further processing user dossier for which there is no accented steadiness of age and, consequently, of compliance with the provisions accompanying to the age requirement."

Update January 23rd 5:55PM ET: Affixed statement from TikTok spokesperson.

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