FTC Gets Bipartisan Push to Probe Tiktok’s Children Policies

A bipartisan group of senators urge the FTC to investigate evidence that TikTok has violated the privacy of its young users and failed to abide by the terms of a 2019 settlement.

• “As the ongoing public health crisis continues to catalyze children’s increased tech use, the FTC must increase its attention to the dangers that minors encounter online, including the manipulation of kids’ attention and their data for advertising dollars,” Sens. Josh Hawley, Edward Markey and others write in letter
• Related: TikTok Should Be FTC Target on Children’s Privacy, Democrats Say

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