Precedent corpus / EDPB (European Data Protection Board)

TikTok Technology Limited

EDPB (European Data Protection Board) case BD-02-2023, decided 2023-08-02. No monetary penalty (reprimand or guidance).

What the regulator decided

Two TikTok pop-up notifications shown to users aged 13-17 failed to present privacy options in an objective, neutral way and so breached the fairness principle in Article 5(1)(a) GDPR; the EDPB directed the Irish DPC to include findings on these dark-pattern design practices in its final decision.

Primary source

Regulator-owned URL. Quote this in legal briefs and academic citations.

https://www.edpb.europa.eu/our-work-tools/our-documents/binding-decision-board-art-65/binding-decision-22023-dispute-submitted_en

Archived snapshot

Wayback Machine snapshot of the primary source. Use this when the regulator URL might be refactored or expire.

https://web.archive.org/web/20251210212756/https://www.edpb.europa.eu/our-work-tools/our-documents/binding-decision-board-art-65/binding-decision-22023-dispute-submitted_en

ConsentMark interpretation

Operator-readable note on how this case shapes the ConsentMark scanner narrative. Not a legal opinion; cites the primary source.

Binding decisions do not themselves impose fines; the accompanying DPC final decision (1 September 2023) imposed the EUR 345 million penalty. fine_eur is zero on this entry by convention - the citable significance is the EDPB framing of dark-pattern unfairness, not the monetary outcome.

Verification trail

Verified by: donal
Verified at: 2026-05-22
Review due: 2026-08-20

Cite this case

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BibTeX

@misc{consentmark-precedent-edpb-bd-02-2023,
  author       = {{ConsentMark}},
  year         = {2023},
  title        = {EDPB (European Data Protection Board) BD-02-2023 - TikTok Technology Limited},
  howpublished = {\url{https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/edpb-bd-02-2023}},
  note         = {ConsentMark methodology v1.3}
}

APA

ConsentMark. (2023, August 2). EDPB (European Data Protection Board) BD-02-2023 - TikTok Technology Limited. Methodology v1.3. https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/edpb-bd-02-2023

Markdown

[EDPB (European Data Protection Board) BD-02-2023 - TikTok Technology Limited - ConsentMark](https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/edpb-bd-02-2023)

Plain text

EDPB (European Data Protection Board) BD-02-2023 - TikTok Technology Limited - ConsentMark, 2023-08-02, methodology v1.3, https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/edpb-bd-02-2023