TikTok Agrees to $1.1 Million Deal in Kids’ Privacy Suit (2)

TikTok Inc. and parent company ByteDance Technology Co. have agreed to a $1.1 million settlement resolving allegations they collected children’s information without their parents’ consent, according to filings in an Illinois federal district court.

The companies compiled and disclosed personal information and viewing data, including lip-syncing videos, of children who used their Musical.ly app, and sold it to third-party advertisers, according to a proposed class complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

The settlement is believed to be the first of its kind, the plaintiffs said in their Dec. 5 unopposed motion for preliminary ...