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US Sues TikTok and ByteDance Over Alleged Violations of Children's Online Privacy Laws

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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has accused TikTok of violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by illegally collecting data on millions of children. The DOJ demands a permanent injunction to stop the alleged invasions of children's privacy. The lawsuit is the latest in a series of US actions against TikTok, with concerns that the company improperly collects vast amounts of data on Americans for the Chinese government. TikTok disputes these allegations.

  1. Lina Khan
    US Federal Trade Commission
    1. TikTok knowingly and repeatedly violated kids' privacy, threatening the safety of millions of children across the country.
  2. US
    US Department of Justice
    1. Given TikTok's broad reach within the United States, the capacity for China to use TikTok's features to achieve its overarching objective to undermine American interests creates a national-security threat of immense depth and scale.
    2. For example, the number of US TikTok users that Defendants classified as age 14 or younger in 2020 was millions higher than the US Census Bureau's estimate of the total number of 13- and 14-year-olds in the United States, suggesting that many of those users were children younger than 13.
  3. CN
    TikTok
    1. The TikTok ban would silence 170 million Americans' voices, violating the First Amendment.
    2. We are proud of our efforts to protect children, and we will continue to update and improve the platform. To that end, we offer age-appropriate experiences with stringent safeguards, proactively remove suspected underage users, and have voluntarily launched features such as default screentime limits, Family Pairing, and additional privacy protections for minors.
    3. We disagree with these allegations, many of which relate to past events and practices that are factually inaccurate or have been addressed.

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sources

  1. 1.CTV News
  2. 2.France 24
  3. 3.Ars Technica
  4. 4.South China Morning Post
  5. 5.Al Jazeera
  6. 6.Le Monde
  7. 7.Agence France-Presse
  8. 8.Reuters

perspectives

  1. 1.US under Donald Trump
  2. 2.2024 US Presidential Election
  3. 3.US-China Relations
  4. 4.Espionage
  5. 5.Tech industry
  6. 6.Regulation
  7. 7.Social Media
  8. 8.Freedom of Speech
  9. 9.Advertising Industry
  10. 10.Child Health
  11. 11.China-EU Relations
  12. 12.Privacy Rights

countries

  1. 1.ChinaCN
  2. 2.United KingdomGB
  3. 3.United StatesUS

organizations

  1. 1.TikTokCN
  2. 2.ByteDance LtdCN
  3. 3.US Department of JusticeUS
  4. 4.US Federal Trade Commission
  5. 5.US Senate
  6. 6.European Union
  7. 7.Republican Party
  8. 8.AppsFlyer
  9. 9.FacebookUS
  10. 10.House of Representatives
  11. 11.MetaUS
  12. 12.US Census Bureau

persons

  1. 1.Lina Khan
  2. 2.Benjamin C Mizer
  3. 3.Brian Boynton
  4. 4.Brian M Boynton
  5. 5.Casey Blackburn
  6. 6.Jody Godoy
  7. 7.Joe BidenUS
  8. 8.Nick Zieminski

technicals

  1. 1.Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
  2. 2.Constitution
  3. 3.First Amendment
  4. 4.FTC Act