US lawsuit says TikTok violated young users' privacy

It was Washington's latest legal broadside launched at TikTok, which is also battling a US law for its Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the video platform or else face a nationwide ban. The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) joined forces in Friday's civil suit saying the video-snippet sharing app broke the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). "TikTok knowingly and repeatedly violated kids' privacy, threatening the safety of millions of children across the country," FTC chair Lina Khan said in a release.