TikTok will pay $1.1 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging it violated children’s U.S. privacy laws, Gizmodo reports. The resolution came days after the complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois by guardians of two minors, alleging TikTok “surreptitiously tracked, collected, and disclosed the personally identifiable information” of minor children and sold it to third-party advertisers. TikTok disagreed “with much of what is alleged in the complaint,” a spokesperson said, and is “firmly committed to safeguarding the data of its users, especially our younger users.” The Hill reports this was one of two lawsuits filed against TikTok in the last week, highlighting concerns over how the app handles children’s data.
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