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The legal pressure on TikTok just got more intense. The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday sued TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance for allegedly breaking child privacy laws, accusing the ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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]
In response to user complaints, Facebook continued to add more and more privacy settings resulting in "50 settings and more than 170 privacy options." However, many users complained that the new privacy settings were too confusing and were aimed at increasing the amount of public information on Facebook.
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.