TikTok / ByteDance · United States
TikTok children's privacy lawsuit: COPPA compliance as platform product governance
After an FTC investigation, the DOJ sued TikTok and ByteDance alleging violations of COPPA and an existing order.
Facts
Regulators alleged TikTok knew many children under 13 used the regular app and still had problems with data collection, account handling, and parental deletion requests.
Compliance lessons
Children's privacy is product compliance: age assurance, defaults, recommendations, advertising, deletion requests, and engineering logs must work together.
Legal issues
- COPPA / children's privacy
- 既有命令执行 / order compliance
- 年龄识别 / age assurance
Sources
- FTC, lawsuit against TikTok and ByteDanceregulator
- U.S. DOJ, TikTok COPPA lawsuitprosecutor