Under pressure from the FTC, TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, agreed in early 2019 to pay a US$5.7mil (RM24.33mil) civil penalty for violating COPPA by collecting kids’ first and last names, phone numbers, email addresses and pictures. — Bloomberg
WASHINGTON: TikTok is under investigation for allegedly violating a settlement reached with US authorities last year that resolved charges the popular app broke rules governing how children’s personal information is treated online.
The US Federal Trade Commission, which enforces the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, and the Justice Department, which often files court actions for the FTC, have opened a preliminary investigation into the matter involving the China-based video-sharing app.
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