Tiktok is convicted of R $ 3.4 billion for transferring data from Europeans to China
Tiktok is not able to offer guarantees against “the potential access of Chinese authorities” to these data using their anti -terrorism and counter -espionage laws, “which the platform itself recognizes as significantly different from European standards,” Doyle said.
The DPC, which opened its investigation in 2021, reveals in its decision that it was informed in April by Tiktok that European data was stored (and since then excluded) in China, contrary to what the company had stated until then. “We are considering additional regulatory actions,” says Doyle, saying he takes the question “very seriously.”
The agency also accuses Tiktok of lack of transparency between 2020 and 2022: the platform did not report its users to which countries the data were transferred, nor could it be consulted from China. Of the ? 530 million, ? 45 million were applied by this infraction.
The Irish regulator had already imposed a fine of ? 345 million to the company in 2023 for violating European rules in the treatment of information about minors. The largest DPC fine was applied to the goal in 2023: ? 1.2 billion for “continuing to transfer” European data to the United States.
The company, which announced its intention to appeal, has six months to put its operations in accordance with the RGPD.
Beijing denies access to restricted data
European data can only be transferred – that is, stored or accessible tornadoes – to a third country if it is considered sufficiently safe by the EU, such as Japan, the United Kingdom or the United States.
