France fines TikTok $5.4 mln for online tracking shortcomings

PARIS: France on Thursday fined TikTok 5 million euros ($5.4 million) for shortcomings linked to the ByteDance short video platform’s handling of online tracking known as “cookies”.

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.