Reddit fined nearly $20 million by UK online privacy regulator for 'using children’s data unlawfully, potentially exposing them to inappropriate and harmful content'

The Information Commissioner's Office, a regulatory body charged with regulating and enforcing online privacy matters in the UK, has fined Reddit £14.5 million ($19.6 million) after an investigation found that the platform had "failed to apply any robust age assurance mechanism and therefore did not have a lawful basis for processing the personal information of children under the age of 13." Reddit says it will appeal the ruling.

Reddit "failed to carry out a data protection impact assessment...