We offer age-appropriate experiences with stringent safeguards, proactively remove suspected underage users and have voluntarily launched features such as default screentime limits, Family Pairing, and additional privacy protections for minors,
Americans, especially our kids, are suffering online. In yet another example, @TheJusticeDept is suing TikTok after the @FTC found TikTok knowingly & repeatedly violated kids' privacy,
Comprehensive data privacy legislation is needed NOW to better protect kids & adults online."
There is no question: the Act will force a shutdown of TikTok by January 19, 2025,
Given TikTok's broad reach within the United States, the capacity for China to use TikTok's features to achieve its overarching objective to undermine American interests creates a national-security threat of immense depth and scale,
The TikTok ban would silence 170 million Americans' voices, violating the First Amendment,
This action is necessary to prevent the defendants, who are repeat offenders and operate on a massive scale, from collecting and using young children's private information without any parental consent or control,
For years, defendants have knowingly allowed children under 13 to create and use TikTok accounts without their parents’ knowledge or consent, have collected extensive data from those children, and have failed to comply with parents’ requests to delete their children’s accounts and personal information,
TikTok knowingly and repeatedly violated kids’ privacy, threatening the safety of millions of children across the country,
With this action, the Department seeks to ensure that TikTok honors its obligation to protect children’s privacy rights and parents’ efforts to protect their children,
As of 2020, TikTok had a policy of maintaining accounts of children that it knew were under 13 unless the child made an explicit admission of age and other rigid conditions were met,