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The Justice Department sues TikTok for breaking child privacy laws

The US Department of Justice is suing TikTok for violating a child privacy law and violating a 2019 agreement with the Federal Trade Commission for previous privacy violations.

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.” The biggest news stories this morning: Meta’s Threads has 200 million users, Don Lemon is suing Elon Musk and X, AI startup says scraping every song on the internet is ‘fair use’. Udio and Suno were sued in June, with major labels claiming they trained AI models by scraping copyrighted music from the Internet.

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