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TikTok faces US federal lawsuit over children's data harvesting

The Department of Justice alleged that ByteDance collected biometric data on minors without parental consent across hundreds of millions of accounts.

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The Department of Justice alleged that ByteDance collected biometric data on minors without parental consent across hundreds of millions of accounts.

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