The EU fined TikTok over 500 million euros — what happened
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Fri, 02 May 2025 16:05:00 +0300
TikTok could pay 530 million in finesThe Irish Data Protection Commissioner DPC said that TikTok had failed to prove that the personal data of EU users received the level of protection required by European Union law.The DPC is convinced that the data that employees in China have remote access to is not protected to a high level.As a result, the shortvideo platform failed to take into account potential access to data by Chinese authorities under counterintelligence and other laws identified by TikTok as significantly different from EU standards, the DPC said in a statement.
TikTok said it strongly disputes the decision and that it used the EU legal framework, including socalled standard contractual clauses, to provide strictly controlled and limited remote access.
It plans to appeal the decision.
TikTok, which has grown rapidly among teenagers around the world in recent years and has 175 million users across Europe, added that it has never received requests for EU user data from Chinese authorities and has never provided them with data.This decision risks setting a precedent with farreaching consequences for companies and entire industries across Europe that operate on a global scale.This is the second time TikTok has been reprimanded by the DPC.
In 2023, it was fined 345 million for violating privacy laws regarding the processing of childrens personal data in the EU.
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