Musical.ly Fined $5.7 Million for Collecting Personal Information from Children
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that the operators of the video social networking app Musical.ly (now known as TikTok) have agreed to pay $5.7 million to settle FTC allegations that the company illegally collected personal information form children. This is the largest civil penalty ever obtained by the FTC in a children's privacy case. The FTC's complaint (which filed