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The result was that TikTok owner ByteDance—which initially planned on selling a small portion of TikTok to an American company—agreed to divest TikTok to prevent a ban in the United States and in other countries where restrictions are also being considered due to privacy concerns, which themselves are mostly related to its ownership by a ...
Show comments. The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, accusing the social media giant of unlawfully collecting and retaining data from ...
Donald Trump–TikTok controversy. In 2020, the United States government announced that it was considering banning the Chinese social media platform TikTok upon a request from then- president Donald Trump, who viewed the app as a national security threat. The result was that TikTok owner ByteDance —which initially planned on selling a small ...
The U.S. sued TikTok predecessor Musical.ly in 2019 for violating COPPA provisions and fined it $5.7 million. The government also ordered the company to destroy personal information of users under 13.
August 2, 2024 at 2:59 PM. Joe Raedle/Getty Images. TikTok has failed to stop children from joining the app and has unlawfully collected their personal data, the US Justice Department alleged in a ...
The court further asked broadcast media not to telecast any of those videos from the app. The spokesperson for TikTok stated that they were abiding by local laws and were awaiting a copy of the court order before they take action. [16] On 17 April, both Google and Apple blocked TikTok from Google Play and the App Store for users in India. [17]
The Justice Department sued TikTok on Friday, accusing the company of violating children’s online privacy law and running afoul of a settlement it had reached with another federal agency. The ...
In November 2019, a class action lawsuit was filed in California that alleged that TikTok transferred personally identifiable information of U.S. persons to servers located in China owned by Tencent and Alibaba. [5] [6] [7] The lawsuit also accused ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, of taking user content without their permission.