TikTok’s initial challenge of UK data protection fine rejected by court
MLex: TikTok has failed in its initial legal effort to quash an appeal to reinstate a £12.7m fine issued by the UK’s privacy watchdog in April 2023 over children’s data misuse, court documents showed on 4 July 2025. The decision by the First-tier Tribunal, which handles cases involving regulators, means that the case can now proceed to a hearing on the substantive issues of allegations into the unlawful processing of children’s data, though no date had been set yet.