{"id":248164,"date":"2026-05-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/tiktok-was-set-to-pay-1b-in-2024-over-kids-privacy-breaches-years-before-dojs-sweetheart-400m-deal-sources\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T06:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:05:18","slug":"tiktok-was-set-to-pay-1b-in-2024-over-kids-privacy-breaches-years-before-dojs-sweetheart-400m-deal-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/tiktok-was-set-to-pay-1b-in-2024-over-kids-privacy-breaches-years-before-dojs-sweetheart-400m-deal-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok was set to pay $1B in 2024 over kids privacy breaches \u2013 years before DOJ&#8217;s sweetheart $400M deal: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/18\/business\/tiktok-was-set-to-pay-1b-in-2024-over-kids-privacy-breaches-years-before-dojs-sweetheart-400m-deal-sources\/\">TikTok was set to pay $1B in 2024 over kids privacy breaches \u2013 years before DOJ&#8217;s sweetheart $400M deal: sources<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/18\/business\/tiktok-was-set-to-pay-1b-in-2024-over-kids-privacy-breaches-years-before-dojs-sweetheart-400m-deal-sources\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/18\/business\/tiktok-was-set-to-pay-1b-in-2024-over-kids-privacy-breaches-years-before-dojs-sweetheart-400m-deal-sources\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-18 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"nypost.com\">nypost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TikTok is nearing a $400 million truce with President Trump\u2019s Justice Department over child data privacy breaches \u2013 a sweetheart deal as the social-media app was willing to pay $1 billion to settle the same claims in 2024, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2024, the Biden-era Federal Trade Commission disclosed it found evidence that TikTok had knowingly collected data on kids younger than 13 without telling their parents \u2013 a violation of a federal law called the Children\u2019s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).<\/p>\n<p>Policymakers and online safety advocates have long pushed for tightened restrictions on targeted ads, arguing social media companies are manipulating impressionable kids and hooking them with addictive features to boost their profits.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok was accused of violating a federal data privacy law called COPPA. <span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>TikTok executives \u2013 who at the time were already fighting tooth-and-nail to prevent a total US ban of the app \u2013 were eager to make the case go away. In closed-door negotiations with FTC officials during the spring of 2024, TikTok agreed in principle to pay a $1 billion settlement for the violations, three sources with direct knowledge of the talks told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok, the sources said, was also close to agreeing to other key safety features sought by the FTC \u2014 including a ban on targeted advertising for minors, limits on late-night notifications sent to their phones.<\/p>\n<p>The FTC referred its findings and proposed settlement terms to the Biden DOJ, taking the unusual step of disclosing the referral in a press release, stating that it had \u201cdetermined that doing so here is in the public interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From there, the deal quickly fell apart.<\/p>\n<p>Insiders said top officials at Biden\u2019s DOJ were hesitant to finalize a settlement, fearing that cutting a deal with a company or otherwise pursuing legal action would undermine Congress\u2019s active effort to ban TikTok through&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/18\/business\/tiktok-was-set-to-pay-1b-in-2024-over-kids-privacy-breaches-years-before-dojs-sweetheart-400m-deal-sources\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok was set to pay $1B in 2024 over kids privacy breaches \u2013 years before&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/child-phone-hands-lying-home-127871148.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248166,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248164\/revisions\/248166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}