Politico<\/a><\/em>, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) stated that TikTok violated core EU data protection rules by sending user data to China without ensuring the data would be protected under Chinese surveillance laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn its first official stance on data transfers to China, the regulator said TikTok failed to properly assess the risks posed by Chinese laws that give the government broad powers to demand access to company-held data \u2014 powers that “differ significantly from EU standards,” as TikTok itself acknowledged during the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The regulator also found that TikTok breached transparency rules between 2020 and 2022 by failing to inform users about the transfer of their personal data to China. Although TikTok updated its privacy policy in 2022, the DPC said the company only now complies with EU requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TikTok was fined \u20ac485 million for data transfers to China and \u20ac45 million for transparency violations \u2014 marking the third-largest penalty under the EU\u2019s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TikTok\u2019s EU headquarters is in Ireland, making the Irish DPC the lead authority overseeing its compliance with EU rules. Despite previously claiming it did not store EU or U.S. user data on Chinese servers, TikTok admitted in April that a “limited amount” of data from EU users had in fact been stored in China as of February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle said the DPC is treating this revelation “very seriously.” TikTok now has six months to bring its data practices in line with EU privacy laws or halt all transfers of EU user data to China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TikTok said it “categorically disagrees” with the DPC\u2019s findings and plans to appeal. The company pointed to its \u20ac12 billion Project Clover<\/em>, which is building data centers in the EU to store user data locally, but the regulator said this was insufficient to alter its ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTikTok warned that the DPC’s decision “creates a precedent with far-reaching consequences for companies and industries across Europe operating globally” and would “hurt the EU’s competitiveness.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This comes as the EU recently fined Apple and Meta \u20ac700 million for violating the Digital Markets Act (DMA). European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has warned tech giants \u2014 including X, Meta, Apple, and TikTok \u2014 that the EU is ready to fully enforce its digital laws, regardless of company leadership or headquarters location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read also:<\/strong> The State Department says the US will change its approach to trying to stop the war between Russia and Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TikTok has been fined \u20ac530 million by European regulators for illegally transferring …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1142476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,49,36415,36422],"tags":[78],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1142475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en","category-11473-news-en-3","tag-homepage-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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