August 16, 2024
A California federal judge on Friday tentatively declined to certify a class of over 100 million nonusers of TikTok over allegations it illegally scraped their personal data from third-party websites, noting the "extraordinary" class size and questioning whether the plaintiffs have shown their injuries are typical of the proposed class.
November 21, 2023
Nonusers accusing TikTok of collecting their information on third-party websites have again asked a California federal court not to throw out their proposed class action, saying they have sufficiently shown that the social media platform intrudes upon their reasonable expectation of privacy under state law.
November 09, 2023
TikTok again urged a California federal judge to toss a proposed class action challenging the social media platform's alleged practice of collecting nonusers' information through code on third-party websites, saying the revised complaint alleges how the technology could be used to invade privacy rights but not that it was.
October 11, 2023
TikTok must face the majority of a proposed class action challenging the social media platform's alleged practice of collecting nonusers' information through scraping software on third-party websites, a California federal judge said in an order entered Tuesday.