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The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday The lawsuit against TikTok The company filed a lawsuit against the company and its China-based parent company ByteDance, alleging that they failed to protect children’s privacy on the social media platform.
The Justice Department alleges that TikTok violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, which requires services targeted to children to require platforms to get parental consent before collecting personal information from users under the age of 13.
The lawsuit, which follows the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) own investigation into TikTok commissioned by the Department of Justice, alleges “TikTok’s illegal, large-scale Violation of children’s privacy“
According to the Department of Justice, TikTok knowingly allowed children to create regular TikTok accounts and allowed them to create and share short videos and messages with adults and other users on the regular TikTok platform, and TikTok collected personal information from these children without parental consent.
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TikTok is facing a federal lawsuit over allegedly violating parental consent laws to collect and store personal information from children under the age of 13 who use the service. (/iStock)
The government has been working to ensure that millions of Americans have Children under 13 She uses TikTok, which “collects and stores personal information about children.”
“TikTok has repeatedly and willfully violated children’s privacy and threatened the safety of millions of children across the country,” FTC Chairman Lina Khan said.
Her agency is Seeking penalties TikTok could be fined up to $51,744 per day for each incident over improper data collection, and theoretically could be fined billions of dollars if the company is found liable.
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FTC Chairman Lina Khan said TikTok had repeatedly and willfully violated laws aimed at protecting children’s privacy online. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
TikTok disputed the allegations in the lawsuit, arguing that the case concerns past practices that have since changed and that the company has updated its privacy policy to protect children.
“We disagree with these allegations, many of which are factually incorrect or relate to past events or practices that we have already addressed,” a TikTok spokesperson told Fox Business.
“We are proud of our efforts to protect children and will continue to update and improve our platform by providing an age-appropriate experience with rigorous safety measures, proactively removing users we suspect to be underage, and voluntarily introducing features like default screen time limits, family pairing and additional privacy protections for minors,” the company added.
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TikTok argues that the lawsuit concerns past practices that have since changed and that the company has updated its privacy policy to protect children. (Photo Illustration: Jonathan Lahr/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
ByteDance has until Jan. 19, 2025 to divest its U.S. assets or the short-video platform will be banned in the U.S. TikTok and ByteDance have filed a separate lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the law, which is pending in federal court.
Parliament Consider the bill The bill would extend the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act to people up to age 17, ban targeted advertising to children and adolescents, and give parents and children the option to remove their information from social media platforms.
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of The bill passed the Senate The bill passed on a bipartisan 91-3 vote on Tuesday and must pass the House of Representatives, which is currently in recess until September, and be signed by President Biden to become law.
Reuters contributed to this report.
