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EU Opens New Probe Into TikTok Data Transfer To China

The probe follows what regulators say was an admission by TikTok that the personal data of European users had been stored in China (Credit: AFP)

An Irish regulator helping police European Union data privacy said Thursday it had launched an investigation into TikTok over the transfer of European users' personal data to servers in China.

TikTok was fined 530 million euros ($620 million) in May by the Data Protection Commission over sending personal data to China, though the Chinese social media giant had insisted this data was only accessed remotely.

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