The guidelines prohibit users from sharing personal information that could facilitate identity theft, stalking, or fraud, and separately prohibit any attempts to hack, reverse-engineer, or compromise TikTok's platform systems.
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This provision establishes user-facing prohibitions on harmful personal data sharing and platform security interference, which interact with applicable data protection and computer fraud statutes and define the scope of user conduct obligations on the platform.
Interpretive note: The threshold for personal information that 'could lead to harm' is qualitative and not precisely defined in the document, creating interpretive uncertainty about moderation scope.
The updated Community Guidelines footer no longer includes a direct link to TikTok's Children's Privacy Policy. Previously, users navigating the Community Guidelines could access child-specific privacy disclosures through the footer link. The Children's Privacy Policy itself may remain available on TikTok's platform, but this change reduces the visibility and discoverability of that document from the Community Guidelines page. Users seeking child privacy information from the Community Guidelines will need to navigate elsewhere or search for it independently.
View change record →The Community Guidelines document no longer contains the substantive explanations of prohibited conduct, safety standards, and platform rules that previously appeared in one consolidated location. Users must now navigate to separate linked resources to understand what content is allowed, what triggers removal, and how the For You feed operates. This change makes it less convenient to quickly review the full range of platform rules, though the underlying policies themselves appear to remain accessible through linked pages.
View change record →Under these terms, users are prohibited from sharing personal information that could lead to harm such as identity theft, stalking, or fraud; violations may result in content removal or account enforcement under the platform's moderation framework.
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Compare across platforms →"Personal Information: We don't allow sharing personal information that could lead to harm, such as identity theft, stalking, or fraud. Platform Security: We don't allow attempts to hack, reverse-engineer, or otherwise compromise TikTok's systems.Excerpt from TikTok's Community Guidelines
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The personal information prohibition interacts with applicable data protection frameworks including the FTC Act's prohibition on unfair and deceptive practices, state privacy laws (including the California Consumer Privacy Act and similar state …
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This provision establishes user-facing prohibitions on harmful personal data sharing and platform security interference, which interact with applicable data protection and computer fraud statutes and define the scope of user conduct obligations on the platform.
Under these terms, users are prohibited from sharing personal information that could lead to harm such as identity theft, stalking, or fraud; violations may result in content removal or account enforcement under the platform's moderation framework.
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