[Stewart Meadows]

TikTok to Pay $92M to Settle Lawsuits over User Privacy




LUCAS NOLAN 26 Feb 2021

The Chinese-owned social media app TikTok has reportedly agreed to pay $92 million to settle dozens of lawsuits alleging that the app harvested personal data from users without consent and shared the data with third-parties, including some in China. Experts are calling it one of the largest privacy-related payouts in history.

NPR reports that the Chinese-owned app TikTok has agreed to pay $92 million to settle dozens of lawsuits alleging that the popular video-sharing app harvested personal data from users, including facial recognition data, without user consent and shared this data with third-parties, including other Chinese organizations.

The proposed settlement applies to 89 million TikTok users in the United States whose personal data was tracked and sold to advertisers, violating state and federal law. Lawyers in the case have called it one of the largest privacy-related payouts in history.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/...-user-privacy/