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Federal prosecutors accused TikTok of collecting and keeping data from children without notifying parents or receiving consent.
We haven't written up this one. Forbes has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.
The Department of Justice had been accusing the platform since 2024 of allowing accounts to be opened for children under thirteen years old and storing their data without parental permission.
TikTok and ByteDance agree to a $400 million settlement with the US Department of Justice over alleged violations of children’s privacy laws.
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act bars websites from gathering the personal information of children younger than 13 without parental permission.
SAN FRANCISCO: TikTok and parent company ByteDance have agreed to pay US$400 million to settle a lawsuit with the US Department of Justice over claims that the video-sharing platform violated federal…
The deal stems from a 2024 lawsuit alleging TikTok and its parent company ByteDance collected "vast amounts of data" on millions of users under the age of 13.
