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The $1.1m settlement is an “excellent result,” TikTok said, unsurprisingly: compared with its $5.7m FTC fine, it's dirt cheap.
Collecting children's data without their guardians' consent is illegal under COPPA and already earned TikTok a huge fine.
A university student in California has filed a class-action lawsuit against video app TikTok, which she accuses of harvesting large amounts of user data and storing it in China. "TikTok...
Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok might be under fire from US politicians but it’s not going to go down without a fight.
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The Army's use of a China-owned video app called TikTok as part of a new campaign to recruit young people into the service is raising concerns on Capitol Hill. Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer sent a...
US lawmakers asked intelligence to look into whether the app and others like it could pose a security threat or be used to influence opinion.
Two senior US senators called for the government to study national security risks possibly posed by Chinese-owned video app TikTok, saying it could leave American users vulnerable to Beijing's...
Scammers are profiting from TikTok's younger audience with adult dating and account impersonation tricks.
It's already gotten hit with the biggest-ever US child privacy fine, and now it might be facing a fine for GDPR violations.