Digital Smarts - TikTok Under Scrutiny for How It Uses Underage Users Information

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While TikTok has seemingly avoided a ban in the US (for now), the app remains under scrutiny, due to concerns about its impact on young users and international data security considerations given its Chinese ownership. On the first point, TikTok is set to once again be examined over the ways in which it tracks and uses data from underage users as part of newly launched legal proceedings in the UK. The case is the latest of many that have brought against the app over the same concern.