FTC Investigation Leads to Lawsuit Against TikTok and ByteDance for Flagrantly Violating Children’s Privacy Law
Complaint alleges TikTok, parent company ByteDance, and affiliates failed to comply with COPPA despite knowing that millions of children were using the platform On behalf of the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice sued video-sharing platform TikTok, its parent company ByteDance, as well as its affiliated companies, with flagrantly violating a children’s privacy law—the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act—and also alleged they infringed an existing FTC 201View Press Release
Complaint alleges TikTok, parent company ByteDance, and affiliates failed to comply with COPPA despite knowing that millions of children were using the platform
On behalf of the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice sued video-sharing platform TikTok, its parent company ByteDance, as well as its affiliated companies, with flagrantly violating a children’s privacy law—the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act—and also alleged they infringed an existing FTC 201View Press Release
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