{"id":32127,"date":"2021-02-26T15:19:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T23:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32127"},"modified":"2021-02-26T15:19:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T23:19:50","slug":"tiktok-to-settle-privacy-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32127","title":{"rendered":"TikTok to settle privacy lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok has agreed to pay $92 million in a proposed settlement for a lawsuit over allegations that the platform wrongfully collected users&#8217; biometric information and private data.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok rejected the assertions in the suit, but a spokesperson said the company decided settling was in its best interest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we disagree with the assertions, rather than go through lengthy litigation, we&#8217;d like to focus our efforts on building a safe and joyful experience for the TikTok community,&#8221; the spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for TikTok users who brought the case said the settlement is one of the largest privacy-related payouts. The settlement awaits final approval by a judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok has agreed to pay $92&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32128,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32127\/revisions\/32128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}