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Social network TikTok, owned by China's ByteDance, has been fined 5 million euros ($5.4 million) by France for failings in its handling of cookies that track user preferences. Reuters reported.

France's data protection watchdog (CNIL) said its investigation only concerned the tiktok.com website and not the more commonly used smartphone apps that provide access to the platform.

The head of "TikTok" discussed with the European Commissioner the collection of data and spying on the Internet

According to the rules of the European Union, websites must request the prior consent of Internet users for any use of their data by so-called Internet "cookies" (HTTP cookies), which can distinguish and remember their visitors, their individual preferences, settings and actions performed .

The ByteDance company did not respond to a request for comment on the subject.

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