2026-05-08 19:15:24 UTC / 路透社
作者：戴维·谢泼德森
2026年5月8日 19:15 UTC 更新于15分钟前
2025年4月2日，美国加利福尼亚州卡尔弗城，TikTok公司办公室外展示的TikTok标志。路透社/丹尼尔·科尔
华盛顿，5月8日（路透电）——据美国广播公司（ABC）新闻周五援引知情人士消息，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普政府正与TikTok接近达成一项4亿美元的和解协议，以解决这起悬而未决的儿童隐私违规诉讼案。
白宫拒绝置评，将问询转至司法部，而司法部未立即回应置评请求。TikTok也未回应置评请求。
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知情人士告诉ABC新闻，这笔和解资金将用于资助特朗普在华盛顿的“美化”项目。特朗普此前已向国会申请100亿美元资金，用于哥伦比亚特区范围内的各类项目。
ABC新闻报道称，白宫官员已就这笔资金能否合法用于特朗普提议的、在阿灵顿国家公墓附近修建250英尺（76米）高的凯旋门事宜进行了数周磋商。通常情况下，和解资金应用于帮助受害者。
美国司法部2024年对TikTok及其母公司字节跳动提起诉讼，指控该社交媒体应用未能保护儿童隐私。
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美方指控称，多年来有数百万13岁以下的美国儿童使用TikTok，该平台“一直在收集并留存儿童的个人信息”。
政府表示，TikTok违反了《儿童在线隐私保护法》，该法案要求面向儿童的服务必须获得家长同意，才能收集13岁以下用户的个人信息。
此次由联邦贸易委员会联合提起的诉讼称，其目的是“制止TikTok对儿童隐私进行的大规模非法侵犯”。
司法部表示，TikTok明知故犯，允许儿童创建普通TikTok账号，随后在常规TikTok平台上与成年人及其他用户创作、分享短视频和消息。TikTok在未获得儿童家长同意的情况下，收集了这些儿童的个人信息。
TikTok的中国母公司字节跳动已于1月敲定一项协议，将成立一家美国占多数股权的合资企业，以保障美国用户数据安全，并避免美国对这款拥有超2亿美国用户的短视频应用下达禁令。
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US nears $400 million settlement with TikTok on child-privacy violations, ABC News reports
2026-05-08 19:15:24 UTC / Reuters
By David Shepardson
May 8, 2026 7:15 PM UTC Updated 15 mins ago
The logo of TikTok is displayed on the company offices in Culver City, California, U.S., April 2, 2025. REUTERS/Daniel Cole
WASHINGTON, May 8 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is nearing a $400 million settlement with TikTok to resolve an ongoing lawsuit over alleged child-privacy violations, ABC News reported on Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
The White House declined to comment, referring questions to the Justice Department, which did not immediately comment. TikTok did not respond to a request for comment.
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ABC said the settlement monies would be used to fund Trump’s “beautification” projects in Washington, sources familiar with the discussions told ABC News. Trump has asked for $10 billion from Congress to fund a wide range of projects in the District of Columbia area.
ABC reported that White House officials have held talks for weeks about whether they could legally use the money to pay for Trump’s proposed 250-foot (76 m) triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery. Typically, settlements are used to aid victims.
The Justice Department in 2024 sued TikTok and parent company ByteDance for failing to protect children’s privacy on the social media app.
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The U.S. alleges that for years, millions of American children under age 13 have been using TikTok and that the site “has been collecting and retaining children’s personal information.”
The government said TikTok violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, which requires services aimed at children to obtain parental consent to collect personal information from users under age 13.
The lawsuit, which was joined by the Federal Trade Commission, said it was aimed at putting an end “to TikTok’s unlawful massive-scale invasions of children’s privacy.”
The DOJ said TikTok knowingly permitted children to create regular TikTok accounts, and then create and share short-form videos and messages with adults and others on the regular TikTok platform. TikTok collected personal information from these children without obtaining consent from their parents.
TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, in January finalized a deal to establish a majority American-owned joint venture to secure U.S. data and avoid a U.S. ban on the short-video app used by over 200 million Americans.
Reporting by David Shepardson in Washington and Juby Babu in Mexico City; Editing by Diti Pujara and Matthew Lewis
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