On Tuesday, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission declared that it had sent a complaint on potential privacy violations involving the social media platform TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, to the Justice Department.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced on Tuesday that it had forwarded a complaint to the Justice Department on possible privacy violations involving the social media network TikTok and its parent firm, ByteDance.
The FTC may decide to sue or strike a deal to end its investigation into TikTok for allegedly poor privacy and data security policies, a source stated in March.
“The investigation uncovered reasons to believe named defendants are violating or are about to violate the law and that a proceeding is in the public interest, so the Commission has voted to refer a complaint to the Department of Justice,” the Federal Trade Commission said in a statement.
The FTC and the US Justice Department are reportedly investigating claims that the well-known social media app violated a 2019 agreement meant to protect children’s privacy, according to a 2020 story..
Without providing more information, the statement went on, “Although the Commission does not typically make public the fact that it has referred a complaint, we have determined that doing so here is in the public interest.”
In order to resolve the FTC’s concerns, TikTok stated on Tuesday that it has been collaborating with the commission for more than a year.
“We’re disappointed the agency is pursuing litigation instead of continuing to work with us on a reasonable solution,” stated TikTok. “We strongly disagree with the FTC’s allegations, many of which relate to past events and practices that are factually inaccurate or have been addressed.”
The investigation is unrelated to Congress’s ongoing worries about the possibility that China may gain unauthorized access to the data of TikTok’s 170 million American users. This is refuted by TikTok.
On Thursday, TikTok is scheduled to submit its legal brief in the lawsuit is filed against ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, over a rule approved in April that mandates the company sell over its U.S. assets by January 19 or risk being banned.
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