£14,472,500
Penalty imposed
UK GDPR
23 February 2026
Date on the register
UK GDPR
Law relied on
UK GDPR Article 5(1)(a), UK GDPR Article 6
Online technology and telecoms
Sector
7 actions on the register
In one line
The ICO fined Reddit, Inc. £14,472,500 on 23 February 2026 under the UK GDPR.
01The record
- Organisation named
- Reddit, Inc.
- Action
- Monetary penalty
- Date published
- 23 February 2026
- Register year
- 2026
- Law relied on
- UK GDPR
- Provisions cited
- UK GDPR Article 5(1)(a), UK GDPR Article 6, UK GDPR Article 8, UK GDPR Article 35
- Penalty
- £14,472,500
- Sector on the register
- Online technology and telecoms
- ICO register reference
- 86094
- Register status
- Published on the ICO enforcement register, 4 September 2026
- Notice documents
- 2 PDFs published by the ICO
- Sector share of register
- 7 of 216 actions (3%)
- Actions published that year
- 21
- Actions under this law
- 95
- Position on the register
- 202nd of 216, oldest first
- Published the same day
- This entry alone
- Rank by penalty size
- 1st of 44 penalties with a published figure
02What happened, and where it sits
Reddit, Inc. received an ICO monetary penalty on 23 February 2026. The Commissioner acted under the UK General Data Protection Regulation, citing UK GDPR Article 5(1)(a), UK GDPR Article 6, UK GDPR Article 8 and UK GDPR Article 35. A fine. The ICO issues a monetary penalty notice setting out the contravention and the sum payable.
The penalty is £14,472,500. That is the largest of the 44 penalties on this register with a published figure and the largest of the 8 recorded in 2026. UK GDPR penalties are capped at £17.5 million or 4% of total worldwide annual turnover, whichever is higher.
Reddit, Inc. is filed under Online technology and telecoms, which accounts for 7 of the 216 actions on the register (3%). In 2026 the ICO published 21 enforcement actions in total, 10 of them monetary penalties. 95 actions on the register name UK GDPR.
Counted from the oldest entry forward, this is the 202nd of 216 actions on the register and the 7th of 7 in Online technology and telecoms. The ICO publishes 2 documents for this action, 13.3 MB in total: "Reddit, Inc. monetary penalty notice" and "Reddit issued with £14.47m fine for children’s privacy failures". They are the authority for everything on this page.
03The ICO's own account
We imposed a £14,472,500.00 penalty to Reddit, Inc. for infringing Articles 5(1)(a), 6, and 8, and Article 35 of the UK GDPR. We found that Reddit, Inc.:
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; and
failed to carry out a data protection impact assessment to assess and mitigate risks to children before January 2025.
These failures meant Reddit was using children’s data unlawfully, potentially exposing children to inappropriate and harmful content.
The law behind this action
UK GDPR
The UK GDPR is the data protection regime the ICO enforces against controllers and processors. Its upper tier is capped at £17.5 million or 4% of total worldwide annual turnover, whichever is higher.
What a monetary penalty does
A fine. The ICO issues a monetary penalty notice setting out the contravention and the sum payable.
Published notice
04Nearest entries on the register
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| MediaLab.AI, Inc. | 4 Feb 2026 | Monetary penalty | UK GDPR | £247,590 |
| LastPass UK Ltd | 20 Nov 2025 | Monetary penalty | UK GDPR | £1,228,283 |
| TikTok Information Technologies UK Limited and TikTok Inc (TikTok) | 15 May 2023 | Monetary penalty | UK GDPR | £12,700,000 |
| Gain Capital UK Limited | 10 Mar 2023 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
| South Staffordshire Plc and South Staffordshire Water Plc | 7 May 2026 | Monetary penalty | UK GDPR | £963,900 |
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05Work out an exposure of your own
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How a fine is calculated
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The ICO profile
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Provenance and independence
Source: ICO enforcement register (ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/), as published on 4 September 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GDPRFine.com is an independent tracker of ICO enforcement. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Information Commissioner's Office, and it uses no ICO branding. Where the ICO's own wording is reproduced it is quoted and attributed; everything else on these pages is our own summary of the published record.
The ICO's register held 222 entries on that date. 6 of them are prosecutions of named individuals, with ages and home towns in the ICO's own summary. This tracker indexes organisations, so those 6 are excluded and every count on these pages is out of 216. They remain on the ICO's own register.
An entry says what the Commissioner did on the date shown. It is not a statement about the organisation today, and the ICO can amend or remove a register entry at any time. Amounts and provisions are as published by the ICO; where the published notice does not state a figure or name a provision, these pages say so rather than filling the gap. This entry was read from the register page at https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/2026/02/reddit-inc/.
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