TikTok Sued by U.S. for Allegedly Breaking Kids’ Privacy Law

(Bloomberg) — TikTok was sued by the U.S. for allegedly collecting data on children in violation of an online privacy act, three months after the popular video app sued the government over a law that could ban it across the country.

In a suit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in California, the Justice Department claimed the app, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance Ltd., has allowed millions of children under the age of 13 to create accounts without their parents’ knowledge or consent.