The Federal Trade Commission brought the hammer down on video creation application TikTok today, for violations committed by now-defunct app Musical.ly, imposing the largest civil penalty ever obtained in a children’s privacy case: $5.7 million.
News of the FTC fine came just hours after data insights firm Sensor Tower reported that the app surpassed 1 billion installs globally via the iTunes App Store and Google Play and just days after the news broke that TikTok is looking to add a biddable advertising option to its platform.
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