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TikTok to Pay Alabama at Least $100M in Settlement
The state accused the platform of misleading users about safety and of being designed to make children addicted.
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TikTok to Pay $400M in Children's Privacy Case
Two years after the U.S. Justice Department's lawsuit, TikTok and ByteDance have agreed to settle the COPPA claims by paying $400 million and strengthening protections for young users.
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European Commission tells TikTok to make child protection the default
The European Commission's preliminary findings under the Digital Services Act point to one conclusion: minors' accounts on TikTok are too open. Non-compliance could cost the platform a fine of up to 6% of its global annual turnover.
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US Government Employees Are Once Again Allowed to Install TikTok on Their Work Phones
The US Department of Justice has stated that federal employees can now download TikTok onto government devices. The app had previously been banned on officials' work phones.
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428 Million TikTok Records: The Breach the Company Won't Acknowledge
A hacker going by the alias Often9 has put up for sale a database of 428 million TikTok accounts, obtained, he claims, through a vulnerability in an internal API. TikTok maintains there was no breach, and that the posted data was already publicly available anyway.