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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Martyn Landi

TikTok fined £452m by EU authorities over data transfers to China

TikTok has been fined 530 million euros (£452 million) by the Irish data protection watchdog for breaching EU privacy rules around transferring user data to China.

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) said the social media company had breached the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by failing to ensure that user data would get equal levels of protection when transferred elsewhere, and was issuing the fine as the firm’s lead supervisory authority in the EU.

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