Portuguese NGO sues TikTok over ‘profits from children’ FMTNews FMTWorld
LISBON: A Portugal-based European consumer protection group has sued short-video app TikTok for allegedly allowing children aged under 13 to sign up for an account without parental consent and failing to implement measures to protect them.
Amid growing security concerns that China could use the Beijing-based company, owned by ByteDance Ltd, to harvest users’ data, Australia, the United States, France and other Western countries have also lately banned TikTok from government devices. TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but told Portuguese newspaper Publico in a statement that protecting its users and their data was of “utmost importance”.
Despite TikTok’s age limit, it “does not implement mechanisms to prevent registration” by users aged below 13, the group said.
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