TikTok Consumer Privacy Class Settlement Includes $92M Payout

TikTok has reached a deal that will resolve a class action complaint over consumer privacy violations via its app and its predecessor Musical.ly and, if it’s approved by the court, the social video sharing app will pay $92 million into a settlement fund.
Amid the pandemic-prompted TikTok boom in the spring, a series of suits were filed by users of the social video sharing app and parents of underage TikTokers. The matters were consolidated before an Illinois federal cou