张一鸣可能收购了一个地雷：美国加州妈妈和大学生连续发起二起集体诉讼 这次公关李亮再也不能说和字节跳动无关了

参加集体诉讼的5000美元一个人是第一个要求

大家都知道，抖音收购了Musica.ly然后变成了TikTok。2016年美国联邦贸易委员会(FTC)对Musical.ly就未成年数据合规进行调查，2019年3月，抖音为此付出750万美元和FTC和解。

那时候，身为字节跳动副总裁的李亮对国内媒体说，抖音被FTC处罚报道不实。

很多人当时问凌通社，究竟怎么一回事，凌通社说，李亮这种说法就是典型的抱头主义，和我无关。。。其实，美国的法律制度决定了这才是字节跳动被起诉的开始。因为个人可以通过这个认定发起集体诉讼。好在字节跳动现在还没有去美国上市，否则SEC也会介入，股民也会集体诉讼。

Initial Case Management Scheduling Order with ADR Deadlines: Case Management Statement due by 2/18/2020. Initial Case Management Conference set for 2/25/2020 09:30 AM in San Jose, Courtroom 6, 4th Floor. (cv, COURT STAFF)

11/29 10:53 Summons Issued as to Beijing ByteDance Technology Co. Ltd. a privately-held company, ByteDance, Inc. a corporation, Musical.ly a corporation, TikTok, Inc. a corporation. (ecgS, COURT STAFF)

TikTok的母公司ByteDance因涉嫌违反儿童隐私法并通过视频应用程序（以前称为Musical.ly）收集了年轻用户的数据而遭到起诉。

ByteDance在2017年收购了Musical.ly，后来将其更名为非常流行的社交视频应用TikTok。根据12月3日的起诉书，ByteDance已从“至少从2014年开始”未经父母的明确同意从13岁以下的Musical.ly用户收集了数据，并将数据出售给了第三方广告商。

《儿童在线隐私保护法》（COPPA）禁止社交媒体公司在未获得父母明确同意的情况下收集儿童数据。未能获得同意将违反法律，并使公司面临来自联邦贸易委员会等监管机构的潜在诉讼。

““我们不同意投诉中所说的大部分内容。”

“ TikTok早就意识到了投诉中的指控，尽管我们不同意起诉书中的大部分内容，但我们一直在与有关各方合作以解决问题，” TikTok发言人告诉VERGE。“解决方案会很快宣布。”

这是针对这家中国公司及其应用程序的一系列指控中的最新一例。ByteDance已因违反COPPA而面临法律麻烦。今年早些时候，FTC就Musical.ly违反COPPA的行为达成了570万美元的和解。YouTube也在9月份就类似指控与FTC达成和解，被罚款1.7亿美元。

TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is being sued after allegedly violating child privacy laws and collecting the data of young users through the video app, which was formerly called Musical.ly.

ByteDance acquired Musical.ly in 2017, which it later rebranded as the enormously popular social video app TikTok. According to the December 3rd complaint, ByteDance has collected data from Musical.ly users under the age of 13 without their parents’ explicit consent “since at least 2014” and sold the data to third-party advertisers.

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, forbids social media companies from collecting the data of children without explicit parental consent. Failing to obtain that consent would be in violation of the law and open the company up to potential lawsuits from regulators like the Federal Trade Commission.

“We disagree with much of what is alleged in the complaint.”

“TikTok was made aware of the allegations in the complaint some time ago, and although we disagree with much of what is alleged in the complaint, we have been working with the parties involved to reach a resolution of the issues,” a TikTok spokesperson told The Verge. “That resolution should be announced soon.”

It’s the latest in a flurry of accusations against the Chinese company and its apps that lawmakers fear feed American user data to the Chinese government and censor content critical of Beijing. ByteDance has already faced legal trouble for violating COPPA. Earlier this year, the FTC reached a $5.7 million settlement over COPPA violations from Musical.ly. YouTube also reached a settlement with the FTC over similar allegations back in September, resulting in a $170 million fine.

一位名叫Misty Hong的大学生兼加利福尼亚州帕洛阿尔托市居民，正在起诉ByteDance，TikTok和Musical.ly（已更名为TikTok），理由是涉嫌违反联邦计算机欺诈法，即《加州宪法》的隐私权和其他法律。

诉讼称，TikTok视频通常包括人脸的特写镜头，从而使该公司可以收集用户的生物特征数据。用户拍摄视频并单击“下一步”按钮后，视频将在不知情的情况下转移到各个域。诉讼称，这是在用户甚至将视频保存或发布到应用程序之前发生的。

诉讼称，Hong在2019年3月或4月下载了TikTok，但从未创建账户。几个月后，她发现TikTok为她做了一件。她使用该应用创建了五六个视频，但从未保存或发布过这些视频。诉讼称，TikTok仍然在不知情的情况下秘密地拍摄了视频和她的数据，并将信息发送到中国的服务器。

该诉讼称，TikTok正在收集有关其用户的大量数据，包括他们的电话和社交网络联系人，电子邮件地址，IP地址，位置和其他信息。据称，该公司使用不同的策略隐瞒他们正在转移用户数据。诉讼称，即使当用户关闭应用程序时，它仍会收集生物特征和用户数据。

该诉讼引用了CNBC，Quartz和Affinity Magazine等新闻媒体的文章，称用户数据已发送到中国。它列出了2019年2月之前和之后将数据传输到的几台中文服务器。

Misty Hong, a college student and resident of Palo Alto, California, is suing ByteDance, TikTok and Musical.ly, a lip-sync app that was rebranded as TikTok, for allegedly violating a federal computer fraud law, the California Constitution's right to privacy and other laws.

TikTok videos often include close-ups of people's faces, allowing the company to gather biometric data on its users, according to the lawsuit. Once a user shoots a video and clicks the "next" button, the videos are transferred to various domains without their knowledge. This happens before users even save or post a video on the app, the lawsuit states.

Hong downloaded TikTok in March or April 2019 but never created an account, according to the lawsuit. Months later, she discovered TikTok made one for her. She created five or six videos using the app but never saved or published the videos. Still, TikTok secretly took the videos and her data without her knowledge and sent the information to servers in China, according to the lawsuit.

TikTok is gathering a trove of data about its users, including their phone and social network contacts, email addresses, IP address, location and other information, according to the lawsuit. The company allegedly uses different tactics to conceal that they're transferring user data. Even when a user closes the app, it still harvests biometric and user data, the lawsuit states.

Citing articles from news outlets such as CNBC, Quartz and Affinity Magazine, the lawsuit alleges user data was sent to China. It lists several Chinese servers the data was transferred to before and after February 2019.

TikTok and Hong's lawyers didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

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