The us department of Justice, the United States has accused the social network TikTok violations of the law on the privacy of the minors, and a deal of the year 2019 by the Commission, the Federal Trade.
An official note of the Department of health that the movement is the result of an investigation, prior to the company's start at the beginning of the year.
The US claims that by the year 2019, TikTok knowingly allowed the young people to create profiles, view, and share videos and posts, with life, thus creating a threat. The app, owned by ByteDance, was also collected and stored the information of the vulnerable children and teens without the consent of their parents, including those relating to estimates of the number “baby”.
In this way, the social network, would have violated the Act, and the united states, for the Protection of Privacy in the internet of Kids (COP), which prohibits the services of the internet to collect, use and disclose information from children under 13 years of age without the consent of their parents. TikTok was also making it hard for the adults deletion of the account, and the records of their own children. In a statement, TikTok said that it objected to the allegations, as he has already been dealt with and some of the behaviors described by the us Department of Justice.
“We don't agree with all these claims, many of which have to do with the situation and the practices of the past were in fact true, or to be addressed now, and we are very proud of their efforts to protect children, and we will continue to update and improve the platform experience, and appropriate for the age of the protection of the strong, and converted to proactively user that we suspect that there are children, and they have launched the women of the features, such as boundaries, the duration of time of the viewing, the links with your family and extra protection for the privacy of a minor.” .
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