The social media app might get hit with a federal lawsuit before its ban officially begins as the FTC has issued a warning for possible future crimes.
  • chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.netEnglish
    692·
    9 days ago

    COPPA is pretty straight forward — the tl;dr is that websites are not allowed to collect personal info from children under age of 13.

    If TikTok have users under the age of 13, and they’re profiling those users the same as they are with adult users (adult users of TikTok? This sounds so weird and foreign to me; I must be too old), then they’re in hot water. I don’t see how there’s any minority report style of thought crime going on here. It’s pretty cut and dry…

      • Rhaedas@fedia.io
        211·
        9 days ago

        That explains it. I read the title and wondered how they are doing prethought crime.

        • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          14·
          9 days ago

          In the article the DOJ say that they have evidence that either Tiktok has committed a crime, or will soon commit a future crime, hence minority report

    • ilmagico@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      9 days ago

      The reference to Minority Report is right in the subtitle:

      The social media app might get hit with a federal lawsuit before its ban officially begins as the FTC has issued a warning for possible future crimes.

      and apparently the FTC statement includes these words:

      violating or are about to violate the law.

      I mean, I also don’t really like TikTok and have a hard time picturing an adult using it as well, but that doesn’t mean it should be held accountable for “future crimes”. At least, that’s what the article is claiming…

    • isles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      8 days ago

      (adult users of TikTok? This sounds so weird and foreign to me; I must be too old)

      https://backlinko.com/tiktok-users

      TikTok has 1.25 billion monthly active users, nearly half of Americans are on TikTok. The majority of people on TikTok are adults.