US nears $400 million settlement with TikTok on child-privacy violations: ABC NewsUS government is close to a $400 million deal with TikTok. This settlement addresses claims of child privacy breaches. The funds are report...
09 May, 2026, 08.13 AM IST
Meta pulls ads aimed at recruiting plaintiffs for social media addiction lawsuitsAt the end of March, a Los Angeles jury found Meta and Alphabet's Google liable for a young woman's depression and suicidal thoughts afte...
10 Apr, 2026, 09.52 AM IST
Tiktok settles social media addiction lawsuit ahead of trialTikTok has agreed to settle a lawsuit concerning social media addiction. The case involves a young woman who claims the platform's design l...
27 Jan, 2026, 10.04 PM IST
US should refrain from imposing unilateral trade restrictions, China's Xi tells Trump; POTUS teases 'TikTok deal approval'Donald Trump and Xi Jinping had a productive phone call, discussing trade, fentanyl, Ukraine, and the TikTok deal. They agreed to meet at t...
19 Sep, 2025, 09.09 PM IST
How TikTok grew from a fun app for teens into a potential national security threatTikTok went dark in the United States on Saturday, hours before a federal ban on the Chinese-owned short-video app took effect. The shutdow...
19 Jan, 2025, 04.12 PM IST
How TikTok grew from a fun app for teens into a potential national security threatTikTok, originally a merger of ByteDance's Douyin and Musical.ly in 2017, has faced escalating national security concerns in the U.S. due t...
19 Jan, 2025, 11.31 AM IST
How TikTok grew from a fun app for teens into a potential national security threatTikTok, a global social video app owned by China-based ByteDance, faces a potential ban in the US unless sold to a US owner. Concerns about...
18 Jan, 2025, 08.37 AM IST
If TikTok Is Banned in the U.S., What Comes Next? The App May Vanish from Stores, But Will Users Still Have Access?TikTok, the popular social media app, is facing a potential ban in the United States due to national security concerns. The U.S. government...
10 Jan, 2025, 09.30 PM IST
US regulator says TikTok may be violating child privacy lawThe US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Tuesday that it had referred a complaint against TikTok to the Justice Department, saying t...
19 Jun, 2024, 06.48 PM IST
How TikTok grew from a fun app for teens into a potential national security threatTikTok's tumultuous journey includes growth from a teen app to a global trendsetter, facing national security concerns and ownership disput...
28 Apr, 2024, 05.06 PM IST
US FTC could bring suit or reach settlement with TikTok over privacy probePolitico earlier reported the potential FTC action on Tuesday citing people with direct knowledge of the matter. The FTC and TikTok decline...
27 Mar, 2024, 08.28 AM IST
Biden administration pursuing TikTok over data practices: reportEarlier in March, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to pass a bill giving ByteDance about six months to sell the U.S. ...
27 Mar, 2024, 08.26 AM IST
TikTok quietly changes user terms amid growing legal scrutinyThe terms were also changed to suggest that legal action must be brought within a year of the alleged harm from using the app. Previously, ...
15 Dec, 2023, 03.31 PM IST
Snapchat agrees to pay $35 million over illegal user data collection in USSnapchat will be paying the amount for violating Illinois's biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).
15 Feb, 2023, 04.27 PM IST
ByteDance to pay $92 million in US privacy settlementThe federal lawsuit alleged that TikTok broke the Illinois biometric privacy law, which allows suits against companies that harvest consume...
27 Feb, 2021, 12.05 AM IST
TikTok agrees to pay $92 million in privacy lawsuit in USIn 2019, TikTok settled a $1.1 million lawsuit over alleged children's privacy allegations.
26 Feb, 2021, 10.04 AM IST
TikTok poised for deal to avoid millions in privacy damagesTikTok's Chinese owner is proposing to settle consumer privacy litigation that has exposed it to hundreds of millions of dollars in damages...
20 Aug, 2020, 08.49 AM IST