EU opens new probe into TikTok data transfer to China

The probe follows what regulators accidental was an admittance by TikTok that the idiosyncratic information of European users had been stored successful China. Photo: Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP/File
Source: AFP

An Irish regulator helping constabulary European Union information privateness said Thursday it had launched an probe into TikTok implicit the transfer of European users' idiosyncratic information to servers successful China.

TikTok was fined 530 cardinal euros ($620 million) successful May by the Data Protection Commission implicit European information transfers to China, though the Chinese societal media elephantine had insisted this information was lone accessed remotely.

The DPC connected Thursday said it had been informed by TikTok successful April that "limited EEA idiosyncratic information had successful information been stored connected servers successful China," contrary to grounds presented by the company.

The regulator said it had expressed "deep concern" successful its erstwhile probe that "TikTok had submitted inaccurate information".

TikTok is simply a part of Chinese tech elephantine ByteDance.

But since it has its European office successful Ireland, the Irish authorization is the pb regulator successful Europe for the societal level -- arsenic good arsenic others specified arsenic Google, Meta and Apple.

The DPC is tasked with ensuring companies comply with the EU's strict General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), launched successful 2018 to support European consumers from idiosyncratic information breaches.

It has imposed a fig of large fines against tech companies arsenic the EU seeks to rein successful large tech firms implicit privacy, competition, disinformation and taxation.

Source: AFP