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TikTok to pay $92M to settle 21 US class-action privacy lawsuits

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TikTok Inc. The settlement is the result of 21 federal lawsuits—most of which were filed on behalf of minors, including children as young as six years old—that accuse TikTok of the “theft of private and personally identifiable TikTok user data.”

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Bolstered by 5th Circuit, Federal Circuit Again Rejects WTDX Judge Albright’s Venue Analysis

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Because most of these cases stem from Texas, this means the Fifth Circuit who recently established further precedent the copyright case In re TikTok, Inc. , As in TikTok , the presence of some [party] employees in Eastern Texas. 4th 352 (5th Cir.

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FTC orders social media companies to report on data collection practices

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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted Monday to issue an order requiring nine major social media and video streaming companies to report on their use of consumer data. He also noted that the investigation does not extend to all major video streaming companies, with Apple being one notable absence. Facebook, Inc.,

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TikTok Wins Immunity in Child Death Due to ‘Blackout Challenge’

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District Judge Paul Diamond in Philadelphia has ruled that TikTok is immune from a lawsuit accusing it of causing the death of a 10-year-old girl by promoting a deadly “blackout challenge” that encouraged people to choke themselves on its video-based social media platform, reports Brendan Pierson for Reuters.

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In re TikTok: Fifth Circuit Implicitly Backs Federal Circuit’s Use of Mandamus to Transfer Cases Out of W.D.Tex.

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Granting TikTok’s mandamus petition to have its trade secret case transferred from W.D.Tex to N.D.Cal. In re TikTok Incorporated , — F.4th 2023). In re TikTok Incorporated , — F.4th Although both companies are Chinese in origin, the plaintiffs sued in Judge Albright’s Waco Texas courtroom.

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Meta sues data analytics company over scraping of Instagram accounts

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Meta Platforms Inc. ” The social media giant accused Social Data of operating an unlawful service since September 2020 designed to scrape account profiles from various social media websites, including Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. .”

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Meta, TikTok Can't Escape Suit Over Health Data Tracking

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A California federal judge has refused to cut Meta Platforms Inc. and TikTok Inc.

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