TikTok Is in Some Minority Report-Style Legal Trouble (gizmodo.com)

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[-] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 67 points 5 months ago

COPPA is pretty straight forward — the tl;dr is that websites are not allowed to collect personal info from children under age of 13.

If TikTok have users under the age of 13, and they’re profiling those users the same as they are with adult users (adult users of TikTok? This sounds so weird and foreign to me; I must be too old), then they’re in hot water. I don’t see how there’s any minority report style of thought crime going on here. It’s pretty cut and dry…

[-] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 31 points 5 months ago

Did some LLM put together minor and report and decide it was a minority report?

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 20 points 5 months ago

That explains it. I read the title and wondered how they are doing prethought crime.

[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 5 months ago

In the article the DOJ say that they have evidence that either Tiktok has committed a crime, or will soon commit a future crime, hence minority report

[-] ilmagico@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

The reference to Minority Report is right in the subtitle:

The social media app might get hit with a federal lawsuit before its ban officially begins as the FTC has issued a warning for possible future crimes.

and apparently the FTC statement includes these words:

violating or are about to violate the law.

I mean, I also don't really like TikTok and have a hard time picturing an adult using it as well, but that doesn't mean it should be held accountable for "future crimes". At least, that's what the article is claiming...

[-] isles@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

(adult users of TikTok? This sounds so weird and foreign to me; I must be too old)

https://backlinko.com/tiktok-users

TikTok has 1.25 billion monthly active users, nearly half of Americans are on TikTok. The majority of people on TikTok are adults.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 7 points 5 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The agency has issued a bizarre message about referring a complaint about the social media app to the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Back then, the commission did find that the company was “aware that a significant percentage of users were younger than 13 and received thousands of complaints from parents” and issued a fine of $5.7 million.

“We’re disappointed the agency is pursuing litigation instead of continuing to work with us on a reasonable solution,” a TikTok spokesperson said in an emailed statement Tuesday.

We’re proud of and remain deeply committed to the work we’ve done to protect children and we will continue to update and improve our product.”

In April, President Joe Biden signed a bill requiring the divestment of TikTok or else face a U.S. ban.

The social app is on the 270-day clock to figure out something, or it could wait for the upcoming presidential election and hope Trump wins as he’s suddenly come around to support TikTok.

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