Brazil's ANPD Fines ByteDance $30 Million, Orders TikTok Data Deletion
ANPD found five separate LGPD violations, including feeding personal data to logged-out minors, and ordered TikTok to delete it.
- Five violations span LGPD Articles 6º and 7º, covering minors' data processed without valid legal basis.
- TikTok must delete illegally collected data and cap logged-out browsing at 12 hours with minimal personalization.
- The compliance plan bans direct messages and livestreaming for any user who never creates an account.
Why it matters: The money is the smaller penalty: Brasília has claimed the authority to design TikTok's default settings.
Brazil's National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) press release ↗ · Aug 25, 20268/25/26