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Case tracker · Child safety

United States v. Musical.ly (TikTok) — 2019 COPPA settlement

Child safety

Settled

Settled Feb 27, 2019

AI system / company: TikTok/Musical.ly (ByteDance)
Jurisdiction: United States (federal)
Court / regulator: Federal Trade Commission / U.S. District Court, C.D. Cal.
Status: Settled

What happened

The operators of Musical.ly (now TikTok) agreed to pay $5.7 million to settle FTC allegations that they illegally collected personal information from children under 13 without parental consent in violation of COPPA, despite knowing many users were under 13 and receiving thousands of parental complaints. It was the largest civil penalty in a children’s privacy case at the time.

About child safety cases

Matters involving platforms or AI products exposing children to predators, explicit content, or illegal data collection (COPPA), and companion-AI harms to minors.

Sources

Attorneys who handle child safety cases

Anand Kumar Chavakula
Maryland
Civil rights
Consumer protection / unfair practices
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Benjamin Edwin Calpino
Florida
Civil rights
Consumer protection / unfair practices
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Laurel LaMontagne
District of Columbia
Civil rights
Consumer protection / unfair practices
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Ross Q. Panko
District of Columbia
Civil rights
Consumer protection / unfair practices
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Peter Andrew Koziol
Florida
Civil rights
Consumer protection / unfair practices
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Timothy B. Hyland
Virginia
Civil rights
Consumer protection / unfair practices
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Related cases

State of New Mexico v. Meta Platforms, Inc. (Ruling issued)
State of Louisiana v. Roblox Corporation (Filed)
State of Florida v. Snap, Inc. (Filed)
Garcia v. Character Technologies, Inc. (Settled)

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