TikTok faces hearings over €1.1b Portuguese collective actions
By Matthew Newman ( August 25, 2026, 13:26 GMT | Insight) -- TikTok faces two hearings later this year relating to Portuguese collective actions claiming up to €1.12 billion for allegedly allowing children to sign up for an account without parental consent and failing to implement measures to protect them. A disclosure said that the two claims, filed by non-profit group Ius Omnibus in 2023, with one involving under-13s and the other 13-year-olds and over, remain at are at an "early submissions stage."TikTok says it faces preliminary hearings in September and in December in two Portuguese collective actions alleging that it let children sign up for an account without parental consent and failed to implement measures to protect them....
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