The Federal Trade commission of the united states (FTC) has asked the Justice Department to launch an investigation on TikTok. According to the agency, the government, the chinese have continued to undermine the privacy of the minors, despite the fact that the agreement is non-court in the year 2019, TikTok has said that the allegations were incorrect.
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TikTok he had agreed to pay 5.7 million at the end of February, 2019, to avoid a battle over the law. The company is the chinese later admitted that he had collected the data of the minor, the beginning of the year, 2014, when the app was still called Musical.ly, in violation of COPPA (the Law on the Protection of the Privacy of Children on the internet).
Over the next few years, the FTC monitored compliance with the agreement, they have found that TikTok does not meet the commitments of his own. As he had predicted Politico at the end of march, the committee decided to pass the matter to the Justice Department. It now has 45 days to decide whether to file a complaint against the company to the chinese.
In a briefing to the press release, the FTC says it has opened an investigation into the alleged violation of the FTC, which prohibits the practice of unfair and deceptive. TikTok released a statement to the following:
We have been working with the FTC for more than a year to address the concerns that you have. We are disappointed that the agency is pursuing a judicial process rather than to continue to work with us on a reasonable solution. We disagree strongly with the allegations in the FTC's, many of which are associated with the practices of the past were in fact true, or have been. We remain deeply committed to the work that we've done to protect children, and we will continue to update and improve our product. We offer an experience to age-appropriate measures for the protection of the strong, and we proactively to users suspected to be a minor and we have launched the women at the forefront of safety and security as well as the limits of a predetermined time in front of the screen, parental controls, and privacy, and designed for children under the age of 16.
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