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The US Government accuses TikTok of breaking against children’s integrity in new trial
The United States has accused TikTok of breaking against children’s integrity by collecting data about them without their parents’ permission when using the app.
Washington DC – US, in a mood on Friday, accused Tiktok To violate children’s integrity by collecting data about them without their parent’s permission when using the app.
The United States, in a mood on Friday, accused TikTok of breaking the privacy of children by collecting data on them without their parent’s condition when using the app. © Imago / Nurphoto
Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) joined Children’s privacy protection law (Coppa).
“Tiktok deliberately and repeatedly violated the integrity of children and threatened the safety of millions of children across the country,” said FTC chairman Lina Khan in a release.
Coppa ends up websites from collecting personal information about children younger than 13 years without getting parental permission.
The suit claims that TikTok has made it possible for children to use the app since 2019, collect and use personal information from young users without letting their parents know.
Accounts also created in a “child mode” intended for users younger than 13 collected e -mail addresses and other personal information, the costume claims.
Tiktok and its parent company change Often “failed to honor” inquiries from parents to have their children’s accounts and data are removed and had ineffective policies to identify and remove accounts created by children, says officials for the Ministry of Justice in publishing.
“This action is necessary to prevent the defendants, who are repeated perpetrators and operate on a massive scale, from collecting and using the private information of small children without any parental consent or control,” the Ministry of Justice’s deputy lawyer Brian Boynton said in the publication.
Five years ago, the United States submitted a Coppa-focused suit against an app called Musical.ly, which China-based Bytdance had bought and merged into Tiktok.
This case resulted in TikTok having to take measures to comply with the children’s privacy law, according to the officials of the Justice Department.
US claims that TikTok’s data collection constitutes a national security threat
Tiktok has fought back against a potential ban in the United States and claimed that “The Constitution is on our side.” © Mario Tama / Getty Images North America / Getty Images via AFP
Tiktok’s collection of user data makes it a national security threat, said the Ministry of Justice a week ago in response to a legal bid for the forced sale of the app.
Tiktok’s suit In a federal court in Washington, a law that forces the app to be sold next year or is facing a US ban violates first amendment rights for freedom of expression.
The US response expects the law to process national security problems, not speech and that Tiktok’s Chinese parent company change cannot require first amendment rights in the United States.
“Given Tiktok’s wide range in the United States, the capacity for China creates to use Tiktok’s functions to achieve its overall goal to undermine US interests a national security threat of enormous depth and scale,” the Ministry of Justice wrote in its archiving.
The judicial answer to Tiktok’s action in an appeal court describes concern as a change can, and would, to fulfill the Chinese government’s requirements for information about US users or give in to print to censor or promote content on the platform, says the Older Justice Ministry’s officials in one Briefing.
Tiktok counteracted in an archiving and said: “The Constitution is on our side.”
“The Tiktok ban would silence 170 million Americans’ votes and offend the first amendment,” the company said in a statement on social media platform X, with reference to the app’s users in the United States.
“As we have said before, the government has never presented evidence of its claims, including when Congress adopted this unconstitutional law.”
TikTok fights back against potentially American ban
A bill signed by President Joe Biden early this year set a The deadline in mid -January 2025 for TikTok to find a non-Chinese buyer or meet an American ban.
Bytadance has said it has No plans to sell tictokLeaves the mood, which will probably go to the Supreme Court, as its only alternative to avoid a ban.
“There is no question: The law will force a TikTok suspension by January 19, 2025,” said the mood, “Silence (they) who use the platform to communicate in ways that cannot be replicated elsewhere.”
