TikTok已同意支付4亿美元与美国司法部达成和解，以结束违反儿童隐私的诉讼1。这是美国历史上最大的儿童隐私和解案之一1。根据协议，其中3亿美元将立即支付，另外100万美元将在政府取消2019年《联邦贸易委员会同意令》时支付1。
TikTok及其母公司字节跳动被指控在2024年的诉讼中违反了《儿童在线隐私保护法》(COPPA)，非法收集了数百万13岁以下用户的大量数据1。诉讼由美国司法部在前总统乔·拜登任期内提起1。根据指控，有超过1.7亿青少年使用TikTok，该应用"面向儿童"但未能有效识别用户年龄或获得未成年用户的父母同意1。
此前，字节跳动前身Musical.ly因类似违规被要求支付570万美元罚款1。YouTube在2019年因COPPA违规支付了1.7亿美元，Epic Games在2022年支付了2.75亿美元1。与此同时，Meta正面临29个美国州提起的COPPA诉讼，罚款可能超过数百亿美元，陪审团审判本周开始1。
TikTok has agreed to pay $400 million to the United States Department of Justice to resolve litigation over violations of children's privacy protections, marking one of the largest child privacy settlements in American history 1. The settlement comprises an immediate payment of $300 million, with an additional $1 million to be paid when the government cancels a 2019 Federal Trade Commission consent order 1.
The legal action, initiated by the Department of Justice during former President Joe Biden's administration in 2024, alleges that TikTok and its parent company ByteDance violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by unlawfully collecting extensive data from millions of users under age 13 1. According to the allegations, TikTok operated as an application targeting children, yet failed to implement effective mechanisms to verify user age or obtain parental consent from minors 1. The platform has over 1.7 million teenage users 1.
The settlement comes amid a broader crackdown on tech companies' compliance with child privacy regulations. ByteDance's predecessor, Musical.ly, was previously ordered to pay $5.7 million in penalties for similar violations 1. Other notable COPPA enforcement actions include YouTube's $170 million settlement in 2019 and Epic Games' $275 million settlement in 2022 1. Additionally, Meta faces COPPA litigation initiated by 29 US states, with potential penalties exceeding hundreds of billions of dollars, with jury trial proceedings beginning this week 1.
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