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>The FTC required TikTok to “destroy” the “personal information” of any account belonging to someone currently 13 or under...

If they are required to "destroy" the data, how can they restore it after proving age using a government ID?

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I thought that too, but perhaps only personal data is deleted irrecoverably, allowing them to retrieve other/periphery account data; maybe an account's "fans" aren't considered personal data, for instance? I'm not familiar with TikTok, admittedly.

Otherwise, perhaps there was some delay on account deletion?

A 30 day delay on deletion is commonplace

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