TikTok has been hit with a €530 million penalty by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for violating EU privacy laws following a probe into the platform’s transfer of European user data to China.
The watchdog found that the company breached the bloc’s data protection rules through unlawful transfers of European user data to China, giving it a six-month deadline to halt any non-compliant transfers. In April, the ByteDance-owned company revealed that some European user data had been stored on servers in China, contradicting previous claims made to the regulator during the investigation.
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Source: Mobile World Live
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