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Cynthia Kroet

TikTok fined €530 million for unsecure data transfers to China

Video Sharing platform TikTok has been fined €530 million by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for failing to protect personal data of EU users when transferring it to China, the privacy watchdog said in a statement on Friday.

DPC Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle said that the transfers infringed the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) because TikTok failed to demonstrate that the personal data of users in the EU, remotely accessed by staff in China, “was afforded a level of protection essentially equivalent to that guaranteed within the EU”.

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