March 03, 2025
An Illinois federal judge trimmed Monday a proposed class action alleging TikTok owner ByteDance secretly collects and profits from biometric data gathered from users of its CapCut video-editing tool, dismissing for good a Video Privacy Protection Act claim, while keeping alive other privacy allegations and tossing a few with leave to amend.
March 15, 2024
TikTok and ByteDance urged an Illinois federal judge to end a proposed class action alleging they secretly collect and profit from data gathered from users of its CapCut video-editing tool, arguing the plaintiffs voluntarily downloaded the app and granted it permission to access certain types of data.
July 31, 2023
TikTok parent company ByteDance Ltd. has been aggressively promoting its CapCut video-editing app on the social media platform to secretly harvest and profit from millions of users' private data, potentially exposing it to the Chinese government, according to a proposed class action filed in Illinois federal court.