The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has referred a complaint against the popular video-sharing app TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance to the Department of Justice, alleging that they failed to protect children’s privacy. The FTC said in a statement on Tuesday that it “uncovered reason to believe” TikTok and ByteDance are “violating or are about to violate” the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. The regulator did not provide any further details of the alleged violations in its statement. The FTC said that it does not typically make referrals of complaints public, but “dete…