A TikTok manager, appearing before MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, has described the death of schoolboy Jools Sweeney as a 'horror' and said the platform has a duty under GDPR to delete data after a certain amount of time.The 14-year-old took his own life in 2022 and his mother Ellen Roome believes his death could have been linked to an online challenge gone wrong.Ms Roome is one of five British parents suing TikTok after the deaths of their children, and she is also fighting for

A TikTok manager, appearing before MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, has described the death of schoolboy Jools Sweeney as a 'horror' and said the platform has a duty under GDPR to delete data after a certain amount of time.The 14-year-old took his own life in 2022 and his mother Ellen Roome believes his death could have been linked to an online challenge gone wrong.Ms Roome is one of five British parents suing TikTok after the deaths of their children, and she is also fighting for a change in the law to force social media firms to hand over children's data to bereaved parents.