TikTok to pay US government $400 million in child privacy settlement

TikTok has agreed to pay a settlement worth $400 million over claims that they failed to protect children’s online privacy.

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The social media site and its parent company were sued by the US Department of Justice in 2024 – lawyers argued that the firm collected "vast amounts of data" on millions of young children aged under 13.
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