The Justice Department sues TikTok for breaking child privacy laws2024-08-02 19:35 by DanielaTags: TikTok, DoJ
The US Department of Justice is suing TikTok for violating a child privacy law and violating a 2019 agreement with the Federal Trade Commission for previous privacy violations. The lawsuit stems from an earlier investigation into the company by the Federal Trade Commission, which referred its privacy case to the DoJ earlier this year. The FTC had been looking into whether TikTok had violated the terms of an earlier privacy settlement with Musical.ly, which was acquired by ByteDance prior to the launch of TikTok. According to the FTC, the investigation found that TikTok had "flagrantly" violated both the 2019 settlement and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). In a statement, the Justice Department also cited TikTok's collection of personal information about children on its platform and its failure to comply with the requests for the information to be deleted. The lawsuit comes at a particularly inconvenient time for TikTok, which is set to face off with the Justice Department in federal court next month over a law that aims to force ByteDance to sell the app or face a ban in the United States. Read more -here-
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