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Is TikTok a patron of the arts? How an appeal under the "special purposes" exemption failed
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In this episode of the Privacy Partnership Podcast, Robert Bateman dives into a fascinating and highly creative legal defense recently mounted by TikTok. Facing a £12.7 million fine from the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for processing the data of underage children, TikTok attempted to use a jurisdictional trump card: the "special purposes" exemption under Section 156 of the Data Protection Act 2018.
Did TikTok’s recommender algorithm process user data for "artistic purposes"? Should the platform be shielded by freedom of expression laws? And how did a philosophy…
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