Indiana's attorney general is suing TikTok, claiming the social app collects 'reams' of sensitive data on consumers and serves up inappropriate videos to children.
Indiana's attorney general is suing TikTok, claiming the social app collects"reams" of sensitive data on consumers and serves up inappropriate videos to children.
Attorney General Todd Rokita filed a pair of lawsuits on Wednesday in state court against TikTok and its owner, Chinese company Bytedance. They are the first state suits against the company, which makes the most popular social-media app in use today. "The TikTok app is a malicious and menacing threat unleashed on unsuspecting Indiana consumers by a Chinese company that knows full well the harms it inflicts on users," Rokita said in aIn the first suit, Rokita said TikTok sends sexualized or other adult content to young users despite claiming it's appropriate for teens. The algorithm"serves up abundant content depicting alcohol, tobacco and drugs; sexual content, nudity and suggestive themes; and intense profanity.
"An essential part of TikTok's business model is presenting the application as safe and appropriate for children ages 13 to 17," the AG's office said. If TikTok were honest about how much drug, alcohol and sexual content appears on the platform, it wouldn't qualify for a"teen" rating in app stores, and far fewer young people would use it, the suit contends.
"While TikTok vacuums up reams of this highly sensitive and personal information about Indiana consumers, it deceives and misleads them about the risks the app routinely poses to their data," the suit states. It also notes that ByteDance is"a Chinese company subject to Chinese law, including laws that mandate secret cooperation with China's intelligence activities."
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