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TikTok app fined in US for illegally gathering children’s data


March 1, 2019

WASHINGTON: The fast-growing, Chinese-owned video sharing network TikTok agreed to pay a $5.7 million fine to US authorities to settle charges that it illegally collected personal information from children, officials said Wednesday. The Federal Trade Commission said the penalty by the social network, which had been known as Musical.ly, was the largest ever in a children´s privacy investigation. The social …

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