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Justice Department sues TikTok, alleging it broke child privacy law
The DOJ says TikTok made it too easy for children to create accounts and then collected data on those who did. The lawsuit comes five years after regulators fined TikTok’s predecessor on similar charges.
The Justice Department on Friday sued TikTok and its China-based owner ByteDance, saying the popular video app had violated a children’s privacy law by collecting data on millions of Americans younger than 13. The DOJ is “deeply concerned that TikTok has continued to collect and retain children’s personal information despite a court order barring such conduct,” acting associate attorney general Benjamin C. Mizer said in a statement. The case is separate from a legal challenge, now playing out in a D.C. appeals court, regarding a law President Bidensigned in April that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok to a non-Chinese buyer as soon as next year or have the app be banned nationwide.
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