The European Union's privacy regulators fined TikTok 530 million euros after a four-year investigation revealed the app's data transfers to China violated EU data privacy laws. The Irish Data Protection Commission cited TikTok's lack of transparency about user data location and found that it failed to ensure equivalent protection for European users' data accessed from China. TikTok plans to appeal, asserting that its current data protections, including Project Clover, were not adequately considered in the ruling.
TikTok failed to verify, guarantee and demonstrate that the personal data of (European) users, remotely accessed by staff in China, was afforded a level of protection essentially equivalent to that guaranteed within the EU.
The decision fails to fully consider these considerable data security measures.
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