A class action lawsuit was filed in California against TikTok, the Chinese social media platform developer, in November 2019. The lawsuit claimed that the TikTok app was designed to “covertly tap into a massive array of private and personally-identifiable information” and used “non-standard encryption to conceal the transfer of such data from users’ devices to Defendants.”
The 46-page lawsuit text contained details about the data types that TikTok was collecting, including user-generated video
