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TikTok will pay $400 million to settle DOJ child privacy lawsuit

The US Department of Justice announced on Friday that TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a lawsuit filed in 2024 over allegedly violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). In the lawsuit, the DOJ alleged that TikTok collected data from children without notifying parents or obtaining consent and did not delete the accounts […]

TikTok will pay $400 million to settle DOJ child privacy lawsuit

We haven't written up this one. The Verge has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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Revamping the Blog... In Progress (2013)

Archival repost — originally published on my old blog on April 6, 2013, already in English (this was the post announcing the blog would go English-only going forward). Lightly cleaned up for dev.to.

  • In 2013, blog transitioned from English-only to English-only
  • Author developed Node.js-based blog engine Lectroid
  • Cloud9 IDE used for versioning and deploying to Pagodabox

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