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US sues TikTok and China’s ByteDance, claiming they failed to protect children’s privacy
Popular short-video platform accused of violating law by collecting personal information from kids under 13 without parental permission.
In the latest legal action confronting TikTok, the US Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission filed a civil suit on Friday against the short-video app and its Chinese parent company ByteDance, claiming they failed to protect children’s privacy. “The department is deeply concerned that TikTok has continued to collect and retain children’s personal information despite a court order barring such conduct,” said Benjamin C. Mizer, acting US associate attorney general, on Friday. In a heavily redacted statement supporting a DoJ brief filed last Friday at the federal appeal court, Casey Blackburn, an assistant director of US national intelligence, said TikTok and ByteDance had already “taken action in response” to Chinese government “demands to censor content outside of China”.
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