consumer privacy advocates have filed a complaint with the FTC alleging TikTok continues to violate child privacy law.
more broadly. The organizations allege TikTok failed to comply with the FTC’s order to destroy all personal information it stores on users under 13 — including data on users who were younger than 13 at the time the data was gathered but are now older.
Owned by Chinese company ByteDance, TikTok allows users to create and share short videos of themselves with millions of users.that collect less data and prevent children from sharing videos with others. But these accounts still collect some personal identifiers and user activity data, advocacy groups argue, and children can simply lie about their age to access TikTok without restrictions.
The groups said in the complaint they had found many regular TikTok accounts operated by young children with videos uploaded as far back as 2016. Regular accounts collect a swath of data that is shared with third parties and used for targeted advertising. “It’s clear now a year later they haven’t properly done the things the FTC told them to do,” said Michael Rosenbloom, a fellow at the Institute for Public Representation, a technology law clinic at Georgetown University that is representing the advocacy groups filing the FTC complaint.
The 1998 child privacy law mandates that online services directed at children or possessing “actual knowledge” children are using them secure parental permission before collecting personal data of users under 13. But even in the limited accounts for younger users TikTok has not created any real mechanism to get parental consent, Rosenbloom said.
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