Justice Department sues TikTok over alleged children's privacy law violations

[chicom scum]

The Department of Justice sued TikTok and its parent company ByteDance on
Friday for allegedly violating children’s online privacy law.

The agency accused the popular social media app of allowing children
younger than 13 years to create accounts, collecting data on those
children and failing to comply with parents’ requests to delete the
accounts and information.

TikTok’s actions would violate the Children’s Online Privacy Protection
Act (COPPA), as well as a 2019 settlement agreement with the app then
known as Musical.ly, according to the lawsuit.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4808004-tiktok-children-privacy-
lawsuit/

[yeti]

| From: The Ring of Fire
| Subject: DOJ Turns To Chinese Scare Tactics In TikTok Lawsuit
| Newsgroups: feedbase.video.the-ring-of-fire
| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 21:00:03 +0200

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| The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging
| that the social media app is illegally collecting children’s data. If
| they were actually concerned about data theft, they’d be suing EVERY
| social media website.

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