A new TikTok suit was filed in California and will also see participation from the FTC, which initiated an investigation into the company's child privacy practices several months ago. The company remains under a prior court order involving COPPA violations.
A new report from ad evaluation firm Adalytics finds that some of YouTube’s targeted ads are still slipping through the cracks, and potentially violating federal child privacy law. The revelation has prompted two US Senators to write a letter to the FTC.
The UK government line is that it does not want to outlaw end-to-end encryption, but simply "provide necessary tools" to law enforcement to ensure child cyber safety. This may include client-side scanning.
As children spend more time online and engage with devices at an earlier age, it becomes a collective responsibility of parents, teachers, schools, governments, and businesses to help create a safer internet for children.
TikTok has struggled with an ongoing string of issues involving child privacy. A new one has emerged as a parents group in the Netherlands has filed a $1.7 billion suit against it in Amsterdam.
A UK privacy lawsuit that could involve millions of minors alleges that TikTok violated child privacy laws in its collection of personal information and in transferring it to third parties.
A consumer protection group has filed complaints against the social media giant: failure to protect children, unfair terms of video use and data collection misrepresentations among others.
TikTok is facing a new complaint on child privacy accusing the platform for not removing videos posted by minors and not making reasonable effort to collect parental consent for new accounts.