Lawsuit Claims TikTok Collects Non-TikTok Users’ Data on Third-Party Websites

TikTok and its owner ByteDance intercepts, collects and saves highly personal data belonging to non-TikTok users when they visit a third-party website with the TikTok Software Development Kit (SDK) installed, a new class action lawsuit alleges.

Plaintiff Bernadine Griffith claims TikTok is not authorized to intercept, collect and save the data of non-TikTok users yet does so “even where non-TikTok users employed privacy settings that are meant to block third-party tracking of their web activity.”

“This conduct is Defendants’ latest salvo in their ongoing campaign to illicitly harvest an enormous amount of private data on U.S. residents,” the TikTok class action states.

Read the source article at topclassactions.com