Tiktok was forged 530 million euros ($ 600 million) on Friday for violating a European Union Data Privacy Law after regulators discovered that the company had incorrectly transferred the personal data of users to China.
The Ireland Data Protection Commission, which announced the fine, said Tiktok could not properly protect the data of its users in Europe, including some that were avializable for personnel in China, in violation of the European Protection Law, the general data.
The fine is one of the largest imposed under the law and adds to the challenges faced by the Chinese owner of Tiktok, Bytedance, in the middle of an effort from the United States to force the sale of the platform to a non -Chinese company or be prohibited in the United States. The Irish authorities said that Tiktok would be ordered to suspend data transfers to China within six months if he did not meet certain requirements.
European regulators said Tiktok’s weak safeguards put information about users in the 27 nations block. The Irish authorities said that the Chinese government, under its anti-terrorism and anti-aspionism laws, could have obtained access to the data of those users.
Tiktok, which has around 175 million users throughout Europe, said in a statement that complies with the laws of the European Union. The company “has never received a request for European user data from Chinese authorities, and has never provided the data of European users to the issue,” Tiktok said.
Tiktok said he planned to appeal the decision, a measure that could establish a judicial battle of years with the Irish government, which is the main Tiktok regulator in Europe. Tiktok’s European headquarters is located in Ireland, and its government is responsible for enforcing the general regulation of data protection.
Tiktok said the Ireland Data Protection Commission did not account for a 2023 initiative to spend 12 billion euros on data or users within the European Union. The project included the construction of a data center in Finland.
“This ruling runs the risk of establishing a precedent with consequences of great rota for entire companies and industries throughout Europe that operate on a global scale,” Tiktok said in a statement.
On Friday, Irish regulators said last month, Tiktok said he had discovered that a “limited” number of user data on servers within China had been stored after having repeatedly denied having done so.
European users “allowed a level of protection essentially equivalent to that guaranteed within the EU,” said Graham Doyle, an attached commissioner of the Irish Data Protection Commission, in a statement.
