TikTok Will Pay $5.7 Million to FTC for Violating Children’s Privacy Rules

FTC Chairman Joe Simons reportedly “alleged that the operators of TikTok/Musical.ly knew that many children under 13 were using the app but still failed to seek parental consent before illegally collecting info from the kids.”

In a statement, Simons proclaimed, “This record penalty should be a reminder to all online services and websites that target children: We take enforcement of COPPA very seriously, and we will not tolerate companies that flagrantly ignore the law.”

This month, the Telegraph warned that TikTok’s mostly young userbase were “being targeted by predators in the comments function of live videos and are being encouraged to engage in sexual activity online.”

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/02/28/tiktok-will-pay-5-7-million-to-ftc-for-violating-childrens-privacy-rules/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/02/11/eight-year-olds-risk-sexual-exploitation-apps-like-tik-tok-charity/

could this part of the motivation for recent escalations?

Delingpole: India and Pakistan Going to War Would Make the Migrant Crisis Look like a Tea Party

A Pakistan-India war would lead to a refugee crisis in the tens of millions. We know this because even without the handy excuse of a war, migrants from Pakistan and India are already being smuggled into Europe via the Balkan route.

It would be a cataclysm that not even the combined forces of Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, Martin Selmayr, Jean Claude Juncker and Guy Verhofstadt could survive. A tantalising thought. But not quite tantalising enough, I fear, for us all to be egging India and Pakistan on towards a proper shooting war…

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/02/28/an-indo-pakistan-war-would-create-the-great-refugee-crisis-ever/