WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice and TikTok have reached a $400 million settlement to resolve allegations the short-video app violated children’s online privacy.
The Justice Department sued TikTok and ByteDance in 2024 for allegedly failing to protect children’s privacy, and illegally collecting their information.
The defendants were accused of violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, which requires services aimed at children to obtain parental consent to collect personal information from users under age 13.
The settlement was announced by the Justice Department. A court filing shows that its lawsuit against TikTok and TikTok parent ByteDance is being dismissed with prejudice.
In January, ByteDance agreed to establish a majority American-owned joint venture to secure U.S. data and avoid a U.S. ban on the app used by more than 200 million Americans.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Ryan Patrick Jones and Chris Sanders)
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