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France fines TikTok $5.4m for online tracking shortcomings

ByteDance-owned company says it has now addressed handling of cookies

French data protection watchdog CNIL said its investigation concerned only the website tiktok.com and not the service's much more heavily used smartphone applications.   © Reuters

PARIS (Reuters) -- France on Thursday fined TikTok 5 million euros ($5.4 million) for shortcomings linked to the short video platform's handling of online tracking known as "cookies," which the ByteDance-owned company said it had now addressed.

French data protection watchdog CNIL said that its investigation only concerned the website tiktok.com and not the service's much more heavily used smartphone applications.

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