A powerful penalty for the thicket. There is a decision

The regulator decided that Tiktok did not comply with EU regulations that protect personal data. As the office pointed out, the Chinese employees of Bytedance had remote access to EU citizens. Part of the information from Tiktok could later hit the hands of the Chinese authorities, which also significantly agreed to the laws and standards used in the EU. The Chinese platform was not to take any action to prevent this.

Tiktok stated that he strongly disagrees with the accusations of the regulator. Platform representatives indicated that the company applies to European law, which significantly limits the possibility of remote data transfer. An appeal has already been announced.

According to Tiktok, the regulator did not take into account additional security measures that the platform implemented in 2023. Tiktok assured that internal company regulations predict that personal data is stored in relevant data centers in Europe and the United States.

Tiktok also declared that he had never received a request from the Chinese authorities for providing access to users from the EU and never provided any data.

“This decision threatens to establish a precedent about far -reaching consequences for companies and entire industries in Europe,” we read in the statement of Tiktoka.

DPC, in turn, referred to its findings of February, according to which some of the European users' data was stored on Chinese servers. Later, however, they were removed from them.

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This is the second penalty imposed on the Tiktok by DPC. In 2023, the regulator imposed a fine of EUR 345 million on the Chinese platform for violating the provisions on the protection of children's personal data.

Reuters points out that DPC is a leading regulatory body in the EU due to the location of European headquarters of technological giants, which are usually found in Ireland.

From the time of receipt of the right to impose financial penalties in 2018, the regulator also imposed a fine on companies such as LinkedIn, X and Meta.

Pursuant to the provisions of the GDPR, the main regulatory body may impose a fine of up to 4 percent on a given company. her global revenues.