Owner of TikTok, an App You're Probably Too Old to Know About, Fined $5.7 Million for Illegally Collecting Kids' Data

Whether in its former life as lip-synching app Musical.ly or its current rebrand as TikTok, the short-form video platform has always courted a youthful demographic. And in the past, its stance on obtaining user consent was, let's say, inattentive. For both these reasons, it's now the recipient of the largest civil...