TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance has agreed to pay $92 million in a settlement to US users who are part of a class-action lawsuit alleging that the video-sharing app failed to get their consent to collect data in violation of a strict Illinois privacy law. 

The federal lawsuit alleged that TikTok broke the Illinois biometric privacy law, which allows suits against companies that harvest consumer data without consent, including via facial and fingerprint scanning. Illinois is the only state with a law that allows people to seek monetary damages for such unauthorized data collection. 

"While we disagree with the assertions, rather than go through lengthy litigation, we'd like to focus our efforts on building a safe and joyful experience for the TikTok community," TikTok said in an emailed statement. 

Facebook agreed to a $550 million settlement under the same law last February. The TikTok settlement must still be approved by a federal judge. 

Privacy advocates have praised the law as the nation's strongest form of protection in the commercial use of such data, and it has survived ongoing efforts by the tech industry and other businesses to weaken it.

Illinois is one of three states that have laws governing the use of biometric data. But the other two, Texas and Washington, don't permit individual lawsuits, instead of delegating enforcement to their attorneys general.

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Tiktok, previously, has become one of the most used mobile applications where people make video contents and share it in social platforms. Nepalese have also been keen towards this application; recently, the usage of tiktok has increased by 25% in nepal and alongside several difficulties have also risen.

While users of other internet service providers are facing problems using the Tiktok app, the users of ClassicTech, as claimed by Classic Tech, are conveniently using the application without any technical difficulty or hindrance, even during the peak hours.

Classic Tech has collaborated with Akamai to connect the content bandwidth of tiktok in order to facilitate easy services to their customers. Its server can handle twice the traffic it has currently with ease.

Classic Tech believes that its technical team that works 24 hours will handle any kind of problems without causing inconvenience to the users. Also, they claim that the customers have never had any problem using tiktok before and still don't have any problem.

 

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Short video-sharing app TikTok said on Monday it had signed a deal with Sony Music Entertainment that will give all its users access to Sony’s portfolio of music including global artists such as Beyonce, Martin Garrix and Harry Styles.

The deal will allow Sony Music to use TikTok's platform, home to several viral internet trends and where emerging artists have garnered fans quickly, to promote its artists.

The partnership comes a day after the U.S. Commerce Department said it would “vigorously defend” an executive order that seeks to bar transactions with Chinese-owned TikTok after a federal judge halted the action.

TikTok signed similar deals with UK-based non profit Merlin earlier this year, in a bid to expand its music library and a multi-year partnership with Paris-based Believe, a music platform for independent artists, in July.

Source: Reuters

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