TikTok will pay $5.7 million to settle accusations that it violated children’s privacy law, the Federal Trade Commission said today. The short-form video app and social network is also being required to gain parental approval for users under 13 years of age, to comply with federal law. All videos previously uploaded by people under the age of 13 will be removed as well.
— the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. dictates that any app or website targeted at children, such as TikTok , must ask children under the age of 13 to get parental consent to share personal information with an app or website. 'TikTok let children under the age of 13 use its app without parental consent, the FTC says' Nearly every social network and online service operating in the US asks users to agree to terms that prohibit children under 13 from using the product, mostly to avoid liability.