The app fails to delete personal information about users age 12 and younger as promised. FMTNews TikTok
WASHINGTON: A group of privacy advocacy organisations is filing a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday alleging that the popular app TikTok violated a consent decree and a law protecting children’s privacy online.
At the time, the FTC said that TikTok, then known as Musical.ly, had known that young children used the app and had failed to get parental consent to collect their names, email addresses and other personal information. It paid a fine of US$5.7 million. “We found that TikTok currently has many regular account holders who are under age 13, and many of them still have videos of themselves that were uploaded as far back as 2016, years prior to the consent decree,” they said in their complaint.
Also, children can easily avoid using the kids version of the app by being dishonest about their age, the groups said.
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