Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor The Justice Department sued TikTok and parent company ByteDance, alleging the popular video app repeatedly violated the U.S.’s Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and related regulations.
The DOJ, together with the FTC, on Friday (Aug. 2) filed the civil lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against TikTok, ByteDance and their affiliates.
According to the complaint, from 2019 to the present, TikTok “knowingly permitted children to create regular TikTok accounts and to create, view and share short-form videos and messages with adults and others on the regular TikTok platform,” the DOJ said.
The complaint seeks monetary penalties and injunctive relief. TikTok collected and retained a “wide variety of personal information from these children without notifying or obtaining consent from their parents,” according to the Justice Department.
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