On October 10, Utah Legal professional Normal (AG) Sean D. Reyes and Utah Governor Spencer J. Cox introduced a lawsuit in opposition to TikTok, alleging that the social media corporate “illegally baits kids into addictive and dangerous use, blatantly misrepresents the app’s protection, and deceptively portrays itself as unbiased of its China-based guardian corporate, ByteDance.”
Reyes’s criticism, filed on behalf of the Utah Division of Trade’s Department of Client Coverage, alleges 3 counts beneath the Utah Client Gross sales Practices Act: (1) Unconscionable Acts or Practices Regarding Underage Customers, in violation of Utah Code § 13-11-5; (2) Misleading Acts or Practices in violation of Utah Code § 13-11-4; and (3) Misleading Acts or Practices in violation of Utah Code § 13-11-4 (figuring out violation).
The unconscionable acts depend is premised upon allegations that “TikTok’s Advice Engine and the options of its app are addictive to kids[,]” that those options “had been designed to be addictive[,]” and that “TikTok additional concealed or disincentivized options that would lower kids’s time spent at the app, or their engagement with the app.” Rely two, the misleading acts or practices depend, alleges that TikTok’s…
