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TikTok is again in hot water for how the popular video-sharing app collects and shares data – particularly from its underage userbase.
An umbrella group comprising 44 consumer-privacy watchdog organizations have filed a complaint against TikTok, saying the wildly-popular video-sharing platform has “misleading” data-collection policies.
ByteDance-owned TikTok has skyrocketed in popularity, with more than 2 billion downloads on the Google Play and Apple App Store marketplaces. The complaint was filed by the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), made up of consumer-privacy watchdog groups from 32 countries. The BEUC says, its goal is to ensure the European Union makes policy decisions to “improve the lives of consumers.”