The Justice Department on Friday sued TikTok and its China-based owner ByteDance, saying the popular video app had violated a children’s privacy law by collecting data on millions of Americans younger than 13.
The app, which has 170 million U.S. users, made it too easy for children to create accounts and then collected data on those who did — a “massive-scale” violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the DOJ said in a legal complaint.
The app, which has 170 million U.S. users, made it too easy for children to create accounts and then collected data on those who did — a “massive-scale” violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the DOJ said in a legal complaint.