watchdog for failing to protect the privacy of children. the information commissioner s office estimated that tiktok allowed up to 1.4 million children aged under 13 in the uk to use the platform in 2020. the video sharing app used the data of children of this age without parental consent, according to the ico, and it said that children s data may have been used to track and profile them and potentially to present them with harmful or inappropriate content. our technology editor zoe kleinman has more details. let s just remind you what tiktok is. it is a social media platform owned by a chinese tech company which allows you to watch and share short videos. it is used by over a billion people across the world and it has been downloaded more than 3.5 billion times. the media regulator, ofcom, recently released a children s and parents online attitude survey and that showed over half of children in the uk aged 3 17 used tiktok last year. now tiktok has been fined
and he s taken his complaints to the information commissioner s office. it has a children s internet code, designed to protect children s data privacy. my preferred reform that youtube should make is that actually when you enter youtube, they don t collect any unnecessary and process any unnecessary information. and that the best way to ensure that they are only collecting the data of adults who are properly consenting would be to then have a process where adults can sign in to the tracking recommendation systems, profiling, targeted ads. in a statement, youtube said it had made investments to protect kids and families, including more protective default settings, a dedicated kids app and a supervised experience which requires parental consent. the information commissioner s office told the bbc, we will consider this complaint carefully. many tech firms make a lot of money from compiling data about their users and then using it to sell them ads, but children are supposed to be protec
league tables of 0ecd countries, the one table we to top is the percentage of a woman s salary that is spent on early years care and education. 0ne table we are right down at the bottom of is the amount of investment that is basically put through. the reality is, it is government that has offered all the so called free childcare hours to parents, the government knows they are underfunding parents, the government knows they are under funding these hours and you can t have it always. back in 2018 in december when we were tired of hearing the government trot out the same old lies about we invest £4 billion into the sector, etc, we said, if you think you pay enough money for the so called free entitlements, show as your calculations. two and a half years later after an appeal and a battle they were forced by the information commissioner s office to give us that information. what did it say? you will not be surprised, that to adequately fund these entitlements would require an additional �
basically is put through. and so the reality is it s government that have offered all these so called free childcare hours to parents. government knows that they are underfunding these hours and you can t have it all ways. i have to just say this. back in 2018, in december, when we were tired of hearing the government trot out the same old lines about we invest £4 billion into the sector, etc., we said, well, if you think you pay enough money for these so called free entitlements, show us your calculations. two and a half years later, after appeal and battle, they were forced by the information commissioner s office to give us that information. what did it say? you will not be surprised by this, that to adequately fund these entitlements would require an additional £2 billion, their words, that is not affordable. and they also said they expected prices. for example, parents of two year olds who may not qualify for these entitlements to rise by up to 30%. so don t make promises
cannot sanctioned whilst in office and i cannot believe we re actually having this debate about whether his position this debate about whether his position remains tenable or not. taikinq position remains tenable or not. talking about this on the day we are also reporting terrifying inflation figures, really semi difficulties when the cost of living that we talked about so much. are not those the sort of issues that voters are feeding back to you? are they really talking about this as opposed to the cost of living? talking about this as opposed to the cost-of-living? cost-of-living? they talk about the cost-of-living? they talk about the cost of living cost-of-living? they talk about the cost of living with cost-of-living? they talk about the cost of living with their cost-of-living? they talk about the cost of living with their cooking - cost of living with their cooking about cost of living with their cooking about it cost of living with their cooking about it in cos