--- title: TikTok will pay $400mn over children’s privacy, a number... description: TikTok and ByteDance agreed to pay $400mn to settle a US Justice Department case alleging they let millions of children under 13 use the platform without... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/tiktok-will-pay-400mn-over-children-s-privacy-a-number-europe-reached-in-2023-vsvnqqioe twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: TikTok will pay $400mn over children’s privacy, a number Europe reached in 2023 | daily.dev og:description: TikTok and ByteDance agreed to pay $400mn to settle a US Justice Department case alleging they let millions of children under 13 use the platform without... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/tiktok-will-pay-400mn-over-children-s-privacy-a-number-europe-reached-in-2023-vsvnqqioe og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VsVNQQiOE.png og:image:alt: TikTok will pay $400mn over children’s privacy, a number Europe reached in 2023 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # TikTok will pay $400mn over children’s privacy, a number Europe reached in 2023 **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary TikTok and ByteDance agreed to pay $400mn to settle a US Justice Department case alleging they let millions of children under 13 use the platform without parental consent, with data collected for targeted advertising. Three hundred million is due immediately; the rest is contingent on a related consent decree against Musical.ly being vacated. No liability has been determined. Ireland's Data Protection Commission fined TikTok €345mn over the same category of harm back in 2023, and the EU has separately charged TikTok under the Digital Services Act over child safety failures. The settlement also requires TikTok to strengthen age verification, add safeguards for younger users, and give parents better oversight tools. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How much will TikTok pay to settle the US Justice Department children's privacy lawsuit? TikTok and ByteDance will pay $400mn total to settle the US Justice Department case alleging they let millions of under-13s use the platform and collected their data without parental consent. Three hundred million is due immediately, with the remaining $100mn payable once a consent decree against TikTok's predecessor Musical.ly is vacated. No liability has been determined. _Track how platform privacy settlements reshape data and compliance requirements on daily.dev._ ### What compliance changes does TikTok have to make after the US children's privacy settlement? TikTok must run stronger age controls, add safeguards for younger users, and give parents better oversight tools as part of the settlement obligations. These compliance terms, rather than the $400mn payment, are considered the part regulators can actually come back and measure, since the fine is comparatively minor for a company of ByteDance's size. _Developers building age-verification or parental-control features can follow this compliance shift on daily.dev._ ### How does TikTok's US children's privacy settlement compare to its EU fine? Ireland's Data Protection Commission fined TikTok €345mn in September 2023 over how the platform handled children's accounts, reaching a comparable figure to the US settlement three years earlier. Children's data has become the most enforced area of European privacy law, and the EU has separately charged TikTok under the Digital Services Act over failures to protect minors. _Compare US and EU privacy enforcement trends affecting platforms on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [TikTok’s settlement priced release from a 2019 privacy order at $100m. 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