Tiktok is reported faced with € 500 million to send private user data to China
Tiktok has been reported to face more than € 500 million ($ 553 million) to transfer private data to Europeans to China. Bloomberg said On Thursday, that the Data Protection Commission in Ireland, which regulates the operations of the Tiktok Bytedance owner of the EU, could outsource the sentence before the end of April.
The subtle results of a four -year investigation of Tiktok data processing practices. The probe is reported to conclude that bytedance has broken Data Protection Regulation Laws (GDPR) in Europe (GDPR) By transferring private user data to China to be accessible by engineers. The country is known for its Widespread, high -tech observationS
“Tiktok tells us that EU data is being transferred to the United States, not to China, but we have learned that there is an opportunity to maintain AI engineers in China,” former Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon Dixon said In March 2021, when the probe began.
Ireland takes on a leading role as the GDPR country where European operations of the company are located, monitors and implementation. The European headquarters of Bytedance is in Dublin. Bloomberg says the date of decision and the size of the fine have not yet been finalized and can still change.
Of course, this is not even the biggest drama of Bytedance this week. Thehe The fate of US operations in the US hangs in balance When a deadline is approaching on April 5 to Find a buyer or face a ban on AmericaS The list of likely results ranges from finding a buyer (Amazon has even tossed his hat in the ring) to their US investors who are transferring to their bets in a new independent global company or The deadline passing with another extension of the deadlineS
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/tiktok-reportletletle-a-%E2%AC500-million-fine-sending-Private-Ser-data-TCHINA-162
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