The Ireland Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined the popular Tiktok 530 million video exchange platform on Friday for violation of data protection rules in the region, transmitting data from European users to China.
“Tiktok violated GDPR regarding the transfer of CES users (European economic zone) to China and transparency requirements,” DPC – Note In a statement. “The decision includes administrative fines totaling 530 million euros and an order that requires a scoring to transfer its processing within 6 months.”
In addition, the order requires the company to suspend data transfer to China for a period of time.
Punishment – the result of the investigation that was launch In September 2021, which conducted the transfer of personal data to the company to China and their implementation of fierce data protection laws regarding the transfer of data to third countries.
Commenting on this decision, Deputy Commissioner DPC Graham Doyle said the transfer of personal data of the ticket to China took place against Article 46 (1) Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), as they were unable to check and ensure that the CES users were given equivalent protection for this.
Dail further added that the tick does not solve the problems that result from the potential access of the Chinese authorities, which are provided for anti -terrorist and the legislation on the fight against the pioneer in the country, and which “significantly” diverged with the standards of the European Union.
DPC also blamed Tiktok for mischief during the investigation that it did not store CES users on Chinese servers, just to reveal the watchman last month that he identified the problem in his systems in February 2025 as a result of limited CES data on servers in China.
“While Tiktok reported DPC that the data is now deleted, we are considering what could be substantiated by further regulation, when consulting our EU data protection bodies,” Doyle said.
Christina Gren, Head of State Policy and Government Relations in Europe, said PRODUCT PRODUCTIONData security initiative aimed at protecting European data users and that the resolution does not reflect the current guarantees.
“DPC himself recorded in his report what the tick invariably said: he never received a request for European users’ data from Chinese authorities and never provided them with European data users,” the Grand Gran – Note.
This is the second fine to be charged with a byte company. In September 2023, the curiosity was arm A fine of 345 million euros (then about 368 million) for violation of the Laws on GDPR in relation to children’s data.
