TechTikTok agrees to pay $400m to settle US children’s privacy case

TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance have agreed to pay $400 million to resolve US Justice Department allegations that the platform violated children’s online privacy laws. The department said $300 million would be paid immediately and $100 million after a court order, describing it as one of the largest recoveries in a case under COPPA.

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