The federal lawsuit alleged that TikTok broke the Illinois
biometric privacy law, which allows suits against companies that harvest
consumer data without consent, including via facial and fingerprint scanning.
Illinois is the only state with a law that allows people to seek monetary
damages for such unauthorized data collection.
“While we disagree with the assertions, rather than go
through lengthy litigation, we’d like to focus our efforts on building a safe
and joyful experience for the TikTok community,” TikTok said in an emailed
statement.
Facebook agreed to a $550 million settlement under the same
law last February. The TikTok settlement must still be approved by a federal
judge.
Privacy advocates have praised the law as the nation’s
strongest form of protection in the commercial use of such data, and it has
survived ongoing efforts by the tech industry and other businesses to weaken
it.
Illinois is one of three states that have laws governing the
use of biometric data. But the other two, Texas and Washington, don’t permit
individual lawsuits, instead delegating enforcement to their attorneys general.
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