The lawsuit is the latest US action against TikTok and its parent company over fears of improperly collecting vast amounts of data on Americans for the Chinese government, while influencing content in a way that could harm Americans
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The Chinese-owned short-video platform boasts around 170 million US users, and is currently fighting a new law that would force ByteDance to divest TikTok’s US assets by January 19 or face a ban. Representative Frank Pallone, the top Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee, said the suit “underscores the importance of divesting TikTok from Chinese Communist Party control. We simply cannot continue to allow our adversaries to harvest vast troves of Americans’ sensitive data.”
The US alleges that for years millions of American children under 13 have been using TikTok and the site “has been collecting and retaining children’s personal information.” Reuters in 2020 first reported the FTC and Justice Department were looking into allegations the popular social media app failed to live up to a 2019 agreement aimed at protecting children’s privacy.
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