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EU fined TikTok Rs 5066 crore, the app was sending data of European users to China
TikTok Fined In Europe: The Commission expressed concern that China's terrorism, cybersecurity and national intelligence laws are different from the standards of the European Union (EU), raising questions about the security of users' data.
TikTok has been fined a record-breaking 530 million euros (around $600 million) for breaching the stringent data privacy regulations of the European Union (EU). This has been done following a four-year inquiry in which it was found that TikTok transferred personal information of users in Europe to China in contravention of the data privacy guidelines of the European Union (EU).
As TikTok has its European headquarters in Dublin, this investigation was conducted by the Data Protection Commission of Ireland. The Commission also noted that TikTok didn't clearly inform users about where they were sending their data and how it was being processed.
"TikTok could not prove that the data of European users accessed remotely by its employees based in China was being given the same protection as is given in the EU," said Graham Doyle, the commission's deputy commissioner.
