Tiktok was beaten by a massive EU 530 million euros ($ 600 million) on Friday, accused of sending personal data to Europeans to China and failing to ensure that it was protected from access to Chinese leaders.
The main social media owned by the Chinese, which is also on the main route of the United States, acknowledged during an investigation that it held European data in China, as opposed to previous refusal, according to GO Ireland data guards.
One of the largest fines has been issued by the authorities followed an investigation into the validity of data transfer by Tiktok.
In 2023 the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) was fined Tiktok – which has 1.5 billion users worldwide – 345 million euros for breach of European law on child data processing.
As Tiktok – a division of Chinese technology chiefs – has its European headquarters in Ireland, the Irish authority is the leading controller in Europe for a social forum, and others like Google, Meta and X.
“Tiktok failed to prove, to ensure and to show that the personal data of users (European), acquired remotely by workers in China, were given a level of protection similar to that confirmed within the EU,” said DPC Assistant Commissioner Graham Doyle.
“Tiktok did not address the possible access to Chinese authorities to (whites') personal data under the anti -terrorism of China, to counter the laws and other laws recognized by Tiktok as based on EU standards,” Doyle said in a statement.
Tiktok said it plans to appeal to the EU, insisting that “it has never received a request” from the Chinese authorities to European consumer data.
“(Tiktok) has never provided European user data,” Christine Grahn of Tiktok Europe said. “We do not agree with this decision and we intend to appeal completely.”
The biggest social media has been on the main ways of the Western government for years over the fear of personal data can be used by China for propaganda or propaganda reasons.
American pressure
Tiktok also violated demand within the EU's Data Protection Act (GDPR) by transferring users data to China, said the DPC statement.
Friday's decision “includes a total administrative fine of 530 million euros and an order requiring Tiktok to bring its processing into compliance within six months,” it said.
Authorities said 45 million euros of the fine was imposed due to a lack of transparency between 2020 and 2022 when the forum did not show to users what country the data was transferred or that it could be obtained from China.
The DPC said its decision also included an order to suspend Tiktok's transfer to China if the company did not reach the six -month deadline.
The fee is expected to increase pressure on the social network in the United States.
The American parliament passed a law in 2024 requiring a way to control tiktok in American or banned from the country.
President Donald Trump has postponed twice, until June 19, the deadline for the sale of the social network, which has 170 million American users.
Many prohibitions
In addition to the issue of data, Tiktok is also accused of locking its users to silos via opaque and the power of algorithm's views, promoting the spread of misconceptions and illegal, violent, or disgusting information.
Several countries have banned the forum at different times, such as Pakistan, Nepal, and France in New Caledonia.
For years, Tiktok has focused on its data protection policies. In Europe, it launched the Clover program, which provides 12 billion euros for more than 10 years.
It claims that white data has been stored in default in Norway, Ireland, and American and “that workers in China do not have access to restricted data,” as phone numbers or IP addresses.
The DPC, which opened its investigation in 2021, however, said Friday was reported in April by Tiktok that European data had been stored, then canceled, in China – in contrast to what the company claimed earlier.
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