TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Aug 6, 2024

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against TikTok and parent company ByteDance for failing to protect children's privacy on the social media app, The Hill reports. The government says TikTok violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, which requires that services aimed at children obtain parental consent to collect personal information from users under age 13. In related news, a group of 21 states and more than 50 U.S. lawmakers on Friday backed the DOJ in another TikTok case defending a federal law that requires ByteDance to sell TikTok's U.S. assets by Jan. 19, 2025, or face a ban. Read the filing in that case.