Tiktok Fine with more than 500 million euros to transfer data from European users to China

Tiktok This is news again in Europe for less desired reasons. In this case, the popular video application received A fine of 530 million euros To Illegally transfer European user data to servers located in ChinaThis field is a violation of the general regulation of data protection of the European Union (GDPR).

According to Ireland, the data protection commission (DPC), Tiktok not only violated the rules by providing information from the European Union users to the territory of China, but also violates the requirements of transparency.

That is why, in addition to a fine of a millionaire, Irish regulators Tiktok gave 6 months to streamline the situationThe field after this period is completed if the platform does not adapt data processing to adapt to the law, it will definitely have to suspend her transfer to China.

“Tiktok personal data to China has violated GDPR because Tiktok did not check, did not guarantee and did not show that the personal data of users of the European economic space that their employees were remotely received in China had the protection level, in essence, equivalent to what was guaranteed in the EU,” they said from the Irish agency.

As a result, they said that Tiktok did not meet the necessary estimates to guarantee that the data of their European users did not fall into the hands of the Chinese regime.

Tiktok will have to pay a fine of 530 million euros

But the story does not end in a fine. DPC also confirmed that Tiktok admitted that it has retained part of the information of its European users in China, Despite the fact that he initially denied this during the investigationField

The Irish indicated that the social network denied that she transferred these accounts of accounts belonging to European users to servers in China. However, in April of this year, he corrected the information and said that this information was saved in the Asian giant. According to the social network, this happened by mistake and covered limited information, which was already excluded. Despite this, European regulators continued to analyze the expansion of their actions against the company on this issue.

This is not the first time that Tiktok is in the focus of the regulators of the European Union confidentiality its users. And this is not the first fine that the Irish DPC applies to the video application; In 2023, he imposed a punishment of 345 million euros for improper protection of minors who used this application.

As reported BloombergIN Tiktok will appeal the punishment of IrelandIn addition, the company said that she had never received orders from the China government to access the information of European users and that it also did not deliver the data to the authorities for Motu ProprioField