Imgur retires from the United Kingdom after the data regulator warns of fines

Imgur, one of the most popular images of accommodation and exchange of images on the web, has closed access to its site to users in the United Kingdom, after a fine of a fine for the country’s data protection control agency.

According to reports on social networks, users trying to load IMGUR of the United Kingdom find an error message that says: “content not available in their region.”

The Information Commissioner (ICO) office in March had launched a investigation In several social media platforms, including IMGUR, observing how children use children and protect the privacy of minors in the country.

The regulator saying On Tuesday, he had reached the provisional results in the investigation, and had notified the parent company of Imgur, Medialab AI, earlier this month that was intended to impose a fine. The regulator said that Imgur’s decision to restrict access in the country was a “commercial decision made by the company.”

“Our findings are provisional and ICO will carefully consider any representation of Medialab before making a final decision on the issuance of a monetary penalty,” said Tim Capel, interim executive director of regulatory supervision in the ICO, in a statement. “We have been clear that leaving the United Kingdom does not allow an organization to avoid responsibility for any prior infraction of the Data Protection Law, and our research is still ongoing.”

The ICO said that its update was provided to “give clarity about our research, and we will not provide more details at this time.”

Imgur and their Mediab Ai company company did not immediately respond a request for comments.

Founded in 2009, Imgur quickly jumped to fame as Reddit’s favored image accommodation service, and today has its own mass community. The site had more than 195 million visits in August, by Semrush.