The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is suing TikTok, charging it let kids under age 13 onto its platform without obtaining parental consent. The suit alleges the company violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by letting young children set up accounts, collecting their personal information, and not honoring parental requests for deletion.
Take our word for it, TikTok is bad, seems to be the US Department of Justice (DOJ)’s approach to defending the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The new law is designed to control threats from China with a special focus on ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company. The DOJ laid out arguments in court papers, but large portions are blacked out, presumably for security reasons. This, along with the specificity of the law against a single company, prompted opposition from the company and civil liberties groups.
So says a report from non-profit Consumer Watchdog, which also charges that advertisers are continuing to pay for and get access to consumer data even though companies claim they are not selling or sharing it. Do you believe in magic?
Enterprise AI vendor Uniphore has acquired CDP ActionIQ and cloud data engineering system Infoworks. The combination of products will create a Zero Data AI Cloud that simplifies AI deployments by enabling companies to access data for AI projects without moving it from existing systems. Prices were not announced.