TikTok To Pay $400M In Major US Child Privacy Settlement

TikTok and its parent company ByteDance have agreed to pay $400 million to the US government to settle allegations that the platform unlawfully collected personal information from millions of children, making it one of the largest child privacy settlements in the country. The settlement resolves a 2024 lawsuit brought by the US Department of Justice under former President Joe Biden. The government alleged that TikTok collected “vast amounts of data” from users under the age of 13 without obtaining the required parental consent. “Children and parents are better protected today than they were when this case began,” Assistant Attorney General…