Tiktok received a fine of EUR 530 million ($ 600 million) on Friday for violation of the European Union Privacy Act after regulatory bodies found that the Company incorrectly transferred users’ personal data to China.
The Irish Data Protection Commission reported that the Tiktok failed to adequately protect data about its users in Europe, including some available to employees in China, contrary to the European Union Privacy Act.
The fine is one of the largest imposed under the law and contributes to the challenges facing the Chinese owner of Tiktoku, Fatted, in the middle of the US effort to enforce the sale of the non -Chinese platform or be banned in the United States. The Irish authorities have stated that the tiktok will be ordered to suspend data transfers to China within six months unless it meets certain requirements.
European regulators have stated that Tiktok’s weak warranties exhibit information about users during the 27-Ground block. Irish bodies said that the Chinese government, according to the laws on anti-terrorism and anti-spinning law, could gain access to data of these users.
Tiktok, which has about 175 million users throughout Europe, said in its statement that it suits the laws of the European Union. “The company has never received a request for European user data from the Chinese authorities and has never provided them with European user data,” Tiktok said.
Tiktok said he was planning to appeal to a decision, a step that could create an annual court battle between him and the Irish government, which is the main regulator of Tiktoku in Europe. The European headquarters of Tiktok is in Ireland and its government is accused of enforcing the General Data Protection Regulation.
Tiktok said that the Irish Data Protection Commission did not take into account the 2023 initiative to spend EUR 12 billion on the data of user data within the European Union. The project included the construction of a data center in Finland.
“This decision risks determining the precedens with far -reaching consequences for companies and the whole industry throughout Europe, which operates on a global scale,” Tiktok said in a statement.
On Friday, the Irish regulatory bodies said Tiktok said last month that he discovered a “limited” amount of user data on servers inside China after he repeatedly refused.
European users have not been “provided in principle of the equivalent level guaranteed in the EU,” said Graham Doyle, Deputy Commissioner of the Irish Data Protection Commission, in his statement.
