{"id":745769,"date":"2026-08-22T03:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/745769\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T03:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:46:12","slug":"tiktok-agrees-to-400m-settlement-to-resolve-us-childrens-privacy-litigation-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/745769\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok agrees to $400m settlement to resolve US children\u2019s privacy litigation | TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2060TikTok and its Chinese former parent company ByteDance on Friday agreed to a $400m settlement to resolve the US Department of Justice\u2019s allegations that the short-form video app \u2060violated children\u2019s online \u2060privacy.<\/p>\n

The justice \u200bdepartment sued TikTok and ByteDance in 2024 for allegedly failing to protect children\u2019s privacy and illegally collecting their information. The defendants were accused \u2060of violating a law requiring online services aimed at children to obtain parental consent to collect personal information from users under age 13.<\/p>\n

Associate attorney \u2060general Stanley Woodward said the justice department\u2019s priority \u201cis ensuring that children are protected online and that \u200bcompanies entrusted with their personal information meet \u200ctheir legal obligations\u201d.<\/p>\n

TikTok did \u200cnot immediately comment.<\/p>\n

Under the settlement, TikTok will pay $300m immediately and an additional $100m upon \u200centry of an order vacating a prior consent decree entered with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2019 against TikTok\u2019s predecessor, Musical.ly. As part of the consent agreement, the FTC said that TikTok, then known as Musical.ly, knew that young children used the app and had failed to get parental consent to collect their names, email addresses \u200cand other personal information. It paid a fine of $5.7m.<\/p>\n

In January, ByteDance agreed to establish a majority American-owned joint venture to secure US data \u200band avoid a ban on the app used by more than 200 million Americans. The government noted that since the complaint was filed, TikTok has undergone significant changes to its ownership, management, compliance functions and privacy practices.<\/p>\n

DoJ said the settlement \u201censures that American families continue to benefit \u2060from stronger protections without the delay and uncertainty of protracted litigation\u201d. The TikTok \u200bUS joint venture said \u200bin a court filing it requires \u200ball users to enter their date of birth to use the \u200bsite.<\/p>\n

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TikTok said it \u200chas developed sophisticated \u200bage-moderation systems that identify \u200bchildren under 13 who misrepresented their age. That court filing said that TikTok has hundreds of personnel trained in underage moderation and, as a result, deletes tens of thousands underage accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2060TikTok and its Chinese former parent company ByteDance on Friday agreed to a $400m settlement to resolve the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-745769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}