TikTok fined $602 million for illegally sending European user data to China

Irish data protection commission (DPC) has Tiktok owner bytotionce, 530 million € ($ 602 million) for violating the European Union’s Privacy Law. Regulator, Tiktok, not able to guarantee the security of information from state control, Tiktok said that the European user sent them to China.

It was The DPC intended to punch Tiktok with such a beautiful – The General data protection adjustment (GDPR) for violation. The regulator confirmed Friday.

As for Tiktok (the European HQ), the DPC, which provides the implementation of GDPR, which is not quite transparent with users of the platform. Along with the beauty, DPC gave it six months to stop transfers from all illegal information.

He claimed in the Tiktok This reported that the European economic field users did not provide information on servers in China. However, this said that “limited EEA user information” was stored there and previously admitted that the regulators said.

“The latest developments in the DPC are very seriously adopting these latest developments in the maintenance of ETE user data in China in China,” Graham Doyle said. “Tiktok, the DPC information is now deleted, and we think that more regulatory measures can be consulted with our peers and EU data protection.”

DPC, between 2020 and 2022, did not say that Tiktok information was given to China. The regulator meets the requirements of transparency in 2022 after the privacy policy of Tiktok. However, the violation of transparency rules resulted in 45 million euros. The data transfers to China caused 485 million euros.

“Tiktok’s transfers to China, Tiktok, the individual data of the EEA users remotely entered by China’s employees, said he could not protect and demonstrate in a guaranteed in the EU. Doyle. “Tiktok did not consider the Chinese authorities by the Chinese authorities, as a result of the inability to implement the necessary assessments, other laws set by the EU standards, unlike the EU standards.”

Tiktok It plans to agree with the government and to apply full. This requires Chinese officials that they do not want European user information and that this does not give any information to the country.

The platform also claims that the DPC does not fully think Project clover In the decision. This initiative applies to privacy guarantees such as building local information centers to keep local data centers locally. DPC decision, “Clover focuses on a period selected before the implementation of 2023 years ago,” Christine GRahn is now the head of the world’s state policy and the head of the government.

This is not the first time that DPC is fined for the first time. In 2023 this After the appointment of Tiktok, the $ 368 million penalty could not protect the information of users between 13 and 17. EU regulators are conducted ongoing research until the plant to stop external intervention in the election; Age checking and addictive algorithm Open and one To submit a risk assessment report before distributing Tiktok Lite in France and Spain.