The complaint filed by the Justice Department and the FTC accuses TikTok and its parent company ByteDance of violating children's online privacy laws by collecting personal information of children under 13 without parental consent.
The lawsuit comes following a previous settlement with Musical.ly, now integrated into TikTok, where violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act led to a fine and court order to comply.
The U.S. government's action aims to prevent repeat offenses that involve massive-scale operations of collecting and using young children's private information without proper consent or control.
TikTok did not provide an immediate response to the lawsuit and the accusations of breaching the federal laws on children's online privacy, putting its operations in the country in potential jeopardy.
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