TikTok’s settlement priced release from a 2019 privacy order at $100m. A judge has tentatively said the order stays.

A federal judge in Los Angeles has tentatively refused to lift the consent decree imposed on Musical.ly, the app ByteDance bought and turned into TikTok. Vlad Savov and Josh Sisco reported the ruling for Bloomberg, which said Judge George H. Wu intends to keep oversight of the company’s privacy practices.

Wu wrote that the order imposed obligations neither TikTok nor the government had shown to be obviated. The ruling is tentative and can change.

Why $100m is riding on it

The Justice Department announced the $400m settlement in August, resolving a children’s privacy case it filed in 2024. The structure is the part worth reading closely.

TikTok pays $300m immediately. The remaining $100m falls due only on entry of an order vacating the Musical.ly decree.

So a quarter of the headline figure is contingent on a court agreeing to stop supervising the company. Read one way, the government...

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