The new strategy introduces several key measures, including a right to erasure for personal information held by large digital platforms and stronger consent standards for data collection.
The settlement addresses claims that TikTok illegally collected data from users under 13 and knowingly allowed them to create accounts, violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
Software engineer Matt Callaghan discovered that Alibaba's website employed obfuscated audio scripts that generated a waveform and analyzed its output.
