Led by New York and California, fourteen states’ attorneys general join together to sue TikTok. Lawsuits accuse TikTok, a social media platform, of damaging young users’ mental health and collecting their data without consent.
Besides, California, New York and the District of Columbia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Vermont and Washington filed separate lawsuits on Tuesday.
Some of the main issues in the lawsuits include “addictive” features such as 24/7 notifications and auto play videos, as well as “dangerous TikTok ‘challenges’” and data collection on users under the age of 13 without parental consent.
A TikTok spokesperson said in a statement, “We strongly disagree with these claims, many of which we believe to be inaccurate and misleading. We’re proud of and remain deeply committed to the work we’ve done to protect teens and we will continue to update and improve our product. We provide robust safeguards, proactively remove suspected underage users, and have voluntarily launched safety features such as default screen time limits, family pairing, and privacy by default for minors under 16. We’ve endeavored to work with the Attorneys General for over two years, and it is incredibly disappointing they have taken this step rather than work with us on constructive solutions to industry wide challenges.”
Health care professionals have seen a growing number of mental and physical health with children and teenagers due to the effects of excessive social media use.
By - FZ
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