TikTok Should Face FTC Moves Over Children’s Privacy, Groups Say

TikTok is collecting children’s information without parental permission, in violation of a U.S. privacy law and an earlier Federal Trade Commission settlement, 20 privacy groups are alleging in a complaint to the agency.

The FTC should ban the Bytedance Ltd. unit from creating new U.S. accounts, the groups told the commission Thursday.

“The FTC ordered TikTok to delete all personal information of children under 13 years old from its servers, but TikTok has clearly failed to do so,” Michael Rosenbloom, staff attorney at the Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown Law, which represents the privacy groups, said in a statement. ...