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FTC Slams TikTok With Lawsuit After Continued COPPA Violations

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Feed Name: Dark Reading

Date Published: 2024-08-05

Date Updated: 2026-04-21

Author: Dark Reading Staff

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The Department of Justice and the FTC filed a civil lawsuit on August 2 alleging that TikTok and parent company ByteDance repeatedly violated COPPA by permitting under‑13 accounts, collecting and retaining children's personal information without parental consent, and refusing deletion requests, referencing a 2019 Musical.ly settlement and emphasizing regulatory enforcement to protect children online.

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