If you or your minor children have used the TikTok or Musical.ly apps, you could be entitled to money from a class-action lawsuit settlement. According tocourt documents, a proposed $92 million settlement is pending in the TikTok, Inc., Consumer Privacy Litigation, a lawsuit that alleges th...
TikTok has agreed to pay US$92 million in a deal to settle a cluster of US class-action lawsuits accusing the video-snippet sharing platform of invading the privacy of young users. A legal filing on Friday in federal court...
According to Gizmodo,TikTok used facial recognition to collect age, gender, and ethnicity data from its users and then sold that information to third parties.NPR reportsthat the proposed settlement (whichyou can read here) represents applies to 89 million TikTok users in the U.S. whose personal...
You can read the full text of the settlement here, but the broad strokes go like this: ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, got hit with a class action lawsuit back in 2019 for what the plaintiffs viewed as a violation of children's privacy rights under the federal Video Privacy Protectio...
As part of the settlement, TikTok complied to avoid collecting or storing biometric information, biometric identifiers, geolocation, or GPS data unless expressly disclosed in its privacy policy. Viewed in this light, it's possible that the changes are a result of the lawsuit agreement. ...
There are some things you need to know if you have shared videos on TikTok. One of those involves how Illinois residents are going to get more money than anyone else from a $92 million dollar TikTok lawsuit settlement.
There are some things you need to know if you have shared videos on TikTok. One of those involves how Illinois residents are going to get more money than anyone else from a $92 million dollar TikTok lawsuit settlement.
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While the FTC is nearing the end of its investigation into TikTok, after referring the case to the DOJ, the department has 45 days to decide whether to pursue the settlement or lawsuit on the FTC’s behalf or send it back for the agency to litigate. That process complicates the time fr...
Steve Williams is an attorney with the Joseph Saveri Law Firm in San Francisco, which represents the plaintiffs. Williams said that in a previous class-action lawsuit filed by his firm, Facebook agreed to pay $52 million in a settlement with content moderators who said they exp...