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TikTok to Pay $92M to Settle Class-Action Suit Over ‘Theft’ of Personal Data

By on February 28, 2021 in Computers & Technology, Litigation-Business

“TikTok has agreed to pay $92 million to settle dozens of lawsuits alleging that the popular video-sharing app harvested personal data from users, including information using facial recognition technology, without consent and shared the data with third-parties, some of which were based in China,” reports Bobby Allyn in NPR’s Technology.

“The proposed settlement, which lawyers in the case have called among the largest privacy-related payouts in history, applies to 89 million TikTok users in the U.S. whose personal data was allegedly tracked and sold to advertisers in violation of state and federal law.”

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