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TikTok’s $400 Million Reckoning: How the World’s Favourite App Got Caught Exploiting Children’s Data

Four hundred million dollars. That’s the price TikTok and its parent company ByteDance have agreed to pay after allegations that the platform quietly scooped up personal data from children who were too young to even legally hold an account. It’s one of the largest child privacy settlements in US history, and it raises uncomfortable questions about what Big Tech is really doing with the data of our youngest users.