Ofcom investigating TikTok’s parental controls
Ofcom said it had “reasonable grounds for believing” that TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, may have breached its legal responsibilities. The regulator believes TikTok may have misled it regarding its Family Pairing system, potentially violating the 2003 Communications Act. TikTok’s Family Pairing feature enables parents to link their accounts to their children’s accounts, …