The legal claim is being launched against the social media app and its parent company ByteDance over “deliberately violating UK and EU children’s data protection law”, according to Longfield who recently finished her term as children's commissioner for England.
She is claiming that every child who has used the video sharing app since May 2018 has had their private information illegally collected by ByteDance and handed to “unknown third parties”.
This is regardless of whether children have a TikTok account or what their privacy settings are, said Longfield.
If successful TikTok could be forced to pay billions of pounds in damages, says Longfield, as the claim aims to win compensation worth thousands of pounds each for millions of children.
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