Data Privacy
Oct. 13, 2023
TikTok must answer class claims of illegal data scraping
“This case is about the defendants’ unauthorized use of non-TikTok users’ highly personal data whenever the non-TikTok users visit a website with the TikTok” software development kits installed, Bird Marella principal Ekwan E. Rhow wrote in the complaint.
TikTok Inc. and parent company ByteDance Ltd. must face parts of a proposed class action accusing them of illegally scraping data from users who do not use the social media platform, ruled a federal judge in Los Angeles.
Citing a 2020 decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. District Judge Stanley Blumenfeld Jr. wrote in his order Tuesday that the defendants “have not shown that their alleged tracking of nonusers’ activity ...
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