The Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion on Fri­day said it found Tik­Tok had not ad­e­quate­ly pro­tect­ed chil­dren’s pri­va­cy rights on its plat­form by al­low­ing adults to view the ac­counts of mi­nors.

The ac­tion ex­posed chil­dren to cy­ber­bul­ly­ing, un­want­ed con­tact and preda­to­ry be­hav­ior, com­mis­sion spokesper­son Thomas Reg­nier said.

“Chil­dren’s con­tent must nev­er be vis­i­ble to strangers,” he said. If Tik­Tok does not take steps called for by the Eu­ro­pean Union’s land­mark Dig­i­tal Ser­vices Act, “mi­nors are ex­posed to preda­tors, to groom­ing and to cy­ber­bul­ly­ing,” Reg­nier said, adding that chil­dren aged 13 to 15 can “eas­i­ly” change their ac­counts from pri­vate to pub­lic and the pri­vate ac­counts of mi­nors aged 16 to 17 can be seen by any­one on the in­ter­net. “We do not ac­cept this,” Reg­nier said. “Putting de­fault set­tings for mi­nors is not a beau­ty con­test un­der the DSA. It must be ef­fec­tive.”