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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit Friday against TikTok and parent company ByteDance for failing to protect children's privacy on the social media app as the Biden ...
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 ...
Friday’s lawsuit was filed by the Justice Department following a referral from the Federal Trade Commission. “TikTok knowingly and repeatedly violated kids’ privacy, threatening the safety ...
On 21 March 2023, the federal government began a review of the app. [110] The review is expected to ban TikTok on all official government devices. It has been reported that some politicians are using burner phones due to the ban. [111] On 4 April 2023, TikTok was banned on all government devices, including the mobile phones of politicians. [112]
Executive Order 14034 ("EO 14034"), "Protecting Americans' Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries". In January 2020, the United States Army and Navy banned TikTok on government devices after the Defense Department labeled it a security risk. Before the policy change, army recruiters had been using the platform to attract young people.
TikTok v. Trump was a lawsuit before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia filed in September 2020 by TikTok as a challenge to President Donald Trump 's executive order of August 6, 2020. The order prohibited the usage of TikTok in five stages, the first being the prohibition of downloading the application.
The government is seeking to “put an end to TikTok’s unlawful massive-scale invasions of children’s privacy,” the complaint states. “TikTok knowingly and repeatedly violated kids ...
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita filed lawsuits against TikTok, alleging that the platform exposed inappropriate content to minors. The complaint also alleges that TikTok "intentionally falsely reports the frequency of sexual content, nudity, and mature/suggestive themes" on their platform which made the app's "12-plus" age ratings on the Apple and Google app stores deceptive.