A class action lawsuit against TikTok claims the video-sharing app collects information about users' facial characteristics, locations and contacts, and secretly sends that data to to China.
of $650 million. Legal experts say, if the the court approves the TikTok lawsuit as a national case, the settlement sum could exceed the Facebook payout.
TikTok says its primary servers for its U.S. users are in Virginia and its backup servers are in Singapore. The company says no data collected on Americans ever goes to servers or authorities in China. In the lawsuit, they contend that as soon as TikTok is downloaded, it starts collecting data, even before a user opens an account. If a user starts making a video, but then does not save it, data in the video is still mined by TikTok, according to the suit. Even when TikTok is merely on a phone but not being used, it is still allegedly vacuuming up loads of personal data. It is a practice, the suit argues, that violates the law by not receiving the consent of users.
TikTok's legal team says the lawsuit is based on a"factually mistaken" analysis of how the app collects data and what it is doing with that data. But worse than that, according to TikTok lawyer Weibell, is that the suit is China-phobic in the same way many U.S. politicians and Silicon Valley tech giants are, he argues.
TikTok, though, hopes the whole case will be thrown out on the grounds that users do not have a right to bring the lawsuit in the first place because of the legalese that forces disputes to be resolved outside of court.
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