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TikTok Biometric Privacy Class Action Settlement For $92 Million Gets Preliminary Approval From Court

An Illinois court has given its preliminary seal of approval to a legal settlement between TikTok and the many different cases filed against it that include allegations of the possible illegal nature of its user privacy policies that violate the Illinois BIPA law. 

In re: TikTok, Inc. Consumer Privacy Litigation

Click to access In-re-TikTok-Inc.-Consumer-Privacy-Litigation.pdf

Judge John Lee Approves The Pre Settlement

Honorable Judge John Lee of the United States (U.S.) District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has rendered his decision granting the parties involved in the case preliminary approval of the settlement agreement forwarded to his court. The TikTok Privacy BIPA Settlement amount reached $92 million. 

The Illinois court was responsible for hearing the multiple class action lawsuits, more than 20 in fact, brought up against TikTok after its privacy policy allegedly violated the BIPA law. It is argued that millions of TikTok users have fallen to the social media company’s purportedly illegal way of collecting biometric information. 

The cases argue that the company uses a special facial recognition technology that unknowingly collects facial biometric data of millions of TikTok users. Then, the data gathered is stored by the company. The said acts are said to be in violation of many different federal and state-level privacy laws and statutes. 

News articles and features even broke out that the company shares its user data with the Mainland Chinese government, but TikTok representatives have denied the accusation. 

Judge Lee’s latest decision comes after his court previously denied the settlement agreement presented by the parties involved in the case. It is said that the total TikTok Privacy BIPA Settlement fund and the manner in which qualified Class members would be contacted have raised objections. 

Further Details Concerning The Settlement

Besides the payment of the TikTok Privacy BIPA Settlement amount of $92 million, TikTok has pledged to change how it handles its users’ private biometric data. The changes range from stopping collecting private user biometric information, geolocation, and the like to ceasing to send U.S.-based users’ data to servers outside the country’s borders. 

Furthermore, the company has promised to implement a three-year plan wherein a neutral third-party entity will review a variety of compliance training and seminars and procedures that would be mandated to company employees. 

Developments with regards to this matter will be shared here on Consider The Consumer as soon as they are released to the public. 

Editor’s Note on TikTok Privacy BIPA Settlement: 

This report aims to provide you with the latest information about the settlement agreement TikTok has agreed to for the different privacy class action suits filed against it to be nullified. We also recommend you the ZoomInfo Stealing Information Lawsuit.

Case Name(s) & No.(s): In re: TikTok, Inc. Consumer Privacy Litigation; Case No.: 1:20-cv-04699

Jurisdiction: United States (U.S.) District Court for the Northern District of Illinois  

Allegation(s): TikTok has violated different federal and state consumer protection and privacy laws after allegedly collecting and storing the biometric data of oblivious app users. 

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