TikTok agreed to pay $ 92 million in a deal to settle a group of US class action lawsuits that accuse the video-sharing platform of violating the privacy of young users.
A legal file filed in federal court in Illinois urged the judge to agree to a settlement that includes TikTok being more transparent about data collection and better training employees on user privacy.
The lawsuit included 21 group cases targeting “TikTok” and its parent company, “Baitdance”, China.
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The lawyers wrote in the lawsuit, “TikTok is infiltrating users’ devices It extracts a wide range of private data Among them is vital data that the platform uses to track users in order to target them with ads and thus generate profits. “
The attorneys estimated that the settlement would involve 89 million users in the United States, most of whom would qualify for 96 cents each if they all filed claims for the settlement funds.
The lawyers also accused TikTok of sending or storing the data In China where the parent company is headquartered.
For its part, “Tik Tok” denied any misuse of data, saying that it only uses “unknown marks to discover the whereabouts of faces” and that it leaves that data on users’ devices, according to the legal papers.
After the settlement, the attorneys who filed the complaint said that BitDance was pushed into the settlement due to pressure from US officials to sell TikTok.
It was reported that the administration of US President Joe Biden had halted his predecessor Donald Trump’s plan She demands to sell TikTok to a company US technology giant Oracle with Wal-Mart as a retail partner.
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