While ByteDance's famous social network was recently in the news in the United States for its sale, which was supposed to take place last April, TikTok is now in the spotlight on the European continent.
After receiving a new 75-day postponement for its resale, which should be final on June 19, the DPC (Data Protection Commission), which corresponds to an organization like the CNIL in Ireland, has just issued a significant sentence for TikTok...
A record fine for TikTok
Although this is unfortunately not the first time that TikTok has been sentenced in Europe for its practices, this new fine beats all records for the Chinese company.
Indeed, as reported by Reuters, TikTok had already been fined in 2023 for its failures in the configuration of minors' user accounts. At the time, ByteDance had already been forced to pay a fine of 345 million euros, a first blow for the company...
According to the decision taken by Dublin this Friday, May 2, TikTok was this time fined 530 million euros, or $600 million. In its decision, the body mentions a breakdown of the €45 million fine for TikTok's obligation to provide information on data transfers, but above all a €485 million fine concerning its obligation to regulate transfers outside the European Union.
Concretely, through this decision by the DPC in Ireland, TikTok is directly accused of illegally transferring data to China.
An update too late for TikTok?
Even though the social network has been fined again on the European continent, TikTok claims to have taken steps, notably through an update to its privacy policy.
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Before this new policy was implemented, it appeared that the data of European TikTok users was transferred to China. Now, TikTok seems to have opted for servers in the United States and Singapore, with possible access from Brazil, Malaysia, the Philippines, and... China.
Thanks to this adaptation for European TikTok users, the social network has received approval from the DPC, but ByteDance does not intend to stop there. Indeed, the Chinese company believes it has indeed complied with the rules of the European Union, and does not accept this condemnation.
But while ByteDance has decided to appeal this decision, the company has not yet provided further details on this subject...
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