TikTok has agreed to pay $92 million to settle dozens of lawsuits alleging that the popular video-sharing app harvested personal data from users, including information using facial recognition technology, without consent and shared the data with third-parties, some of which were based in China.
The proposed settlement, which lawyers in the case have called among the largest privacy-related payouts in history, applies to 89 million TikTok users in the U.S. whose personal data was allegedly tracked and sold to advertisers in violation of state and federal law.
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The settlement is the result of 21 federal lawsuits filed mostly on behalf of minors - some as young as 8 years old - that suit claimed the company engaged in the "theft of private and personally identifiable TikTok user data."
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Tiktok also shared information about users, without their consent, with Facebook, Google and other companies, the suit claims.
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