Wednesday, February 27, 2019

TikTok Settles For $5.7M For Violating Child Protection Laws

Although I don't think $5.7 million is nearly enough, at least the FTC actually did something to these guys.

The operators of the video social networking app Musical.ly, now known as TikTok, have agreed to pay $5.7 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that the company illegally collected personal information from children. This is the largest civil penalty ever obtained by the Commission in a children’s privacy case.