WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) – ByteDance, the Chinese owner of the TikTok video-sharing app, will pay $92 million to settle allegations that it illegally collected the personal data of children under 13 on the Musical.ly app, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday..
The FTC said ByteDance, which acquired Musical.ly in 2017 and later merged it with TikTok, violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by collecting personal information from children, including names, email addresses, and photos, without obtaining verifiable parental consent..
The FTC also charged that ByteDance failed to delete the personal information of children under 13 when requested by parents and did not provide parents with clear and comprehensive privacy notices..
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