Hukumar kare bayanan Burtaniya ta sanya takunkumi mai tsanani kan kudi Reddit a wannan Talata, wanda ya kai fam miliyan 14.47. Adadin, wanda ya yi daidai da fiye da dalar Amurka miliyan 100 a farashin yanzu, yana ladabtar da dandamali don gazawa mai mahimmanci a cikin sarrafa bayanan sirri daga yara ‘yan ƙasa da shekaru 13. Information Commissioner’s Office yanke shawara shine sakamakon cikakken bincike akan ayyukan kamfanin.
Binciken ya nuna cewa hanyar sadarwar zamantakewa ta ba da damar yin amfani da ƙananan yara ba tare da ingantaccen tushen doka don tattara bayanansu ba. Durante lokacin da aka bincika, hanyoyin tabbatar da shekaru an ɗauka ba su da tasiri ta hanyar masu gudanarwa, suna fallasa yara ga haɗarin da ba dole ba a cikin dandalin tattaunawa. Rashin ƙaƙƙarfan shinge ya sa masu amfani waɗanda ba su cika mafi ƙarancin shekarun buƙatun ƙirƙira asusu ba ya sauƙaƙe.

Rashin gazawa a tsarin tabbatarwa
Binciken ya nuna cewa dandalin ya dogara da yawa ga masu amfani da su bayyana kansu don tabbatar da shekarun su, hanyar da mai kula da shi ya bayyana a matsayin mai sauƙi. Essa raunin da ke cikin tsarin ya ba da damar a kula da yara a matsayin manya a cikin yanayin dijital, ana tattara bayanan su da sarrafa su ba tare da izini da ya dace ko takamaiman matakan kariya ba.
Kawai a tsakiyar watan Yuli 2025 kamfanin ya aiwatar da tsauraran matakan sarrafawa, yana buƙatar tabbatarwa don samun damar abun ciki da aka ɗauka balagagge. Sai dai hukumar ta jaddada cewa jinkirin da aka samu wajen daukar wadannan matakan ya haifar da nakasu na tsawon lokaci, inda ake amfani da bayanan kananan yara ba bisa ka’ida ba.
Rashin tantance tasirin tasiri
Ɗaya daga cikin mahimman abubuwan hukuncin shine gano cewa Reddit ba ta aiwatar da kimantawar tasiri kan kariyar bayanai ga yara kafin farkon 2025. Rashin Essa ya hana kamfanin ganowa da kuma rage ƙayyadaddun haɗarin da ƙananan yara ke fuskanta lokacin yin binciken dandalin.
Masu gudanarwa sun yi jayayya cewa yara ba su da isasshen hukunci don fahimta ko sarrafa yadda ake amfani da bayanansu. Rashin bayyana gaskiya da kariyar fasaha ya sanya wannan alƙaluma a cikin wani yanayi mara kyau, yana ba da damar yin amfani da abun ciki wanda ya kamata a iyakance.
Amsar kamfani da mahallin
Wakilai daga Reddit sun sanar da cewa kamfanin bai yarda da shawarar ba kuma yana da niyyar daukaka kara tarar da hukumar Burtaniya ta yanke. Kare dandamali yana kiyaye cewa ayyukansa suna ba da fifikon sirri kuma babu buƙatu don raba ainihin ainihi don amfani da ayyukan, ba tare da la’akari da ƙungiyar shekarun mai amfani ba.
Tsarin tsari a cikin Reino Unido ya ƙara tsananta dangane da manyan kamfanonin fasaha. Karamar hukumar na ci gaba da muhawara kan sabbin takunkumi kan amfani da shafukan sada zumunta na yara ‘yan kasa da shekara 16, yayin da ICO ke ci gaba da gudanar da bincike a kan wasu mashahuran dandamali, kamar TikTok da Imgur, tare da karfafa taka tsantsan kan amincin yara kan layi.