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Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with €530M fine over data transfers to China
European Union privacy watchdogs have fined TikTok 530 million euros. They say a four-year investigation found that the video sharing app’s data transfers to China breached strict data privacy rules.
The Irish national watchdog serves as TikTok’s lead data privacy regulator in the 27-nation EU because the company’s European headquarters is based in Dublin. Grahn said TikTok strongly disagreed with the Irish regulator’s argument that it didn’t carry out “necessary assessments” for data transfers, saying it sought advice from law firms and experts. TikTok faces further scrutiny from the Irish regulator, which said that the company had provided inaccurate information to throughout the inquiry by saying that it didn’t store European user data on Chinese servers.
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