In addition to administrative fines, Tiktok has been ordered that their data processing practices meet the GDPR in six months.
The Ireland Data Protection Commission (DPC) has issued a fine of 530 million euros to Tiktok about European user data transfers to China.
In an announcement today (May 2), the DPC declared that the data transfers of the social networks giant had violated the general regulation of data protection (GDPR). The authority also found that Tiktok had not met the transparency requirements under the GDPR in relation to the provision of information to users about such transfers.
Today’s verdict, which was first reported last month, concludes an investigation that the DPC began in 2021 began the Tiktok data transfer to third countries.
According to the DPC, through the investigation, Tiktok informed the authority that it did not store US user data on servers located in China. However, last month, Tiktok told the DPC that he had discovered in February 2025 that the limited data of the EEE users had been stored in servers in China, unlike Tiktok’s evidence to the investigation.
“Tiktok personal data transfers to China violated the GDPR because Tiktok could not verify, guarantee and demonstrate that the personal data of the US users, remotely accessed by the staff in China, had a level of protection ate, the Dipc Commissioner of DPC Graham Doyle.
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In addition to the administrative fine, Tiktok also has a leg problem so that its data processing meets the GDPR in six months. While Tiktok has informed the DPC that the data has now been eliminated, Doyle said the commission now “considers which additional regulatory action can be justified.”
In response to the DPC decision, Tiktok has outlined his disagreement with the verdict, stating that the decision does not consider the “strict” data security measures of the company presented in the Data Safety Initiative of the Clover-ITS Billion-Euro Project.
“This ruling runs the risk of establishing a precedent with consequences of great rota for companies and entire industries throughout Europe that operate on a global scale,” reads a statement by Christine Grahn, European head of public policies and government relations of Tiktok.
“It offers a blow to the competitiveness of the European Union. Through the Clover Project, a multi -million dollar voluntary initiative of euros, Tiktok has implemented a comprehensive solution that offers unmatched protections for European data on users and privacy data and privacy data and data data data data and privacy data data and privacy data data and privacy data and flowers.
“At a time when European companies and economies need innovation, growth and jobs, we believe that the EU should welcome welcome and support solutions such as Project Clover, as a way to facilitate safe data flows between the EU and the non -coined, while the most important is the Mostaning The Mostaning the Mostaning the Mostaning the Moshasing, which is most manifested and more manifested Locating, most importantly, most importantly and Mostaning Mostaning, which is most manifested and more, Mostaning Mostaning, which is most manifested and manifests more and more manifests, which is most manifest and there has been more those that manifest itself and have more than those who have more, the greatest being more.
On the other side of the pond, American operations of Tiktok remain in uncertainty. Despite the deadline of April 5 for the divination of most of his actions in Tiktok, the giant of social networks was awarded a 75 -day break thanks to an executive order signed by the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
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