TikTok will pay $400 million to settle DOJ child privacy lawsuit

The US Department of Justice announced connected Friday that TikTok volition wage $400 cardinal to settee a suit filed in 2024 implicit allegedly violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). In the lawsuit, the DOJ alleged that TikTok collected information from children without notifying parents oregon obtaining consent and did not delete the accounts erstwhile parents requested.

TikTok is acceptable to wage $300 cardinal close distant and volition wage a further $100 cardinal "upon introduction of an bid vacating a anterior consent decree entered against TikTok's predecessor, Musical.ly," the DOJ says successful a property release. The colony is "one of the largest recoveries ever o …

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