In a complaint filed by the Department of Justice on behalf of the FTC, regulators allege that the app collected children's personal data without their parents' consent.
The company allegedly encouraged younger users to falsely claim they were older than 13 to bypass a requirement that parents have to consent before data is compiled on their preteens.
The signup option for kids was revised in 2020 but problems with children being able to bypass the age restriction continued, the FTC added.
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