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TikTok faces fresh US pressure over child privacy
Regulators have been investigating potential violations of children's privacy by the social media firm.
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has referred a complaint against TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance over potential violations of children's privacy to the Justice Department (DOJ). In April, President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that gave ByteDance a maximum of a year to sell the app or face a ban in the country. In May, TikTok filed a lawsuit aiming to block that legislation, arguing it is an "extraordinary intrusion on free speech rights" of the company and its 170 million American users.
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