US accuses TikTok of unlawful, ‘massive-scale’ invasion of children’s privacy

The U.S. Justice Department on Friday sued TikTok, claiming that the social media platform is collecting data from children under 13 in violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and a 2019 court order.

"For years, defendants have knowingly allowed children under 13 to create and use TikTok accounts without their parents’ knowledge or consent, have collected extensive data from those children, and have failed to comply with parents’ requests to delete their children’s accounts and personal information," the government said in a complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court.

The lawsuit is the latest round in the long-running conflict between the U.S. and TikTok, a subsidiary of Beijing-based ByteDance, which is also named as a defendant in the case.

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