Tiktok 530 million euros (600 million dollars) were fined on Friday due to its violation of the European Union’s data privacy law after the organizers found that the company had transferred user personal data to China incorrectly.
The Irish Data Protection Committee, which announced the penalty, said that Tiktok has failed to protect its user data in Europe, including some available to employees in China, in violation of the European Union data privacy law, which is the general data protection regulation.
The fine is one of the largest persons imposed under the law and adds to the challenges faced by the Chinese Tijook owner, Bitayance, Amid American effort To force the sale of the platform to a non -Chinese company or ban it in the United States. Irish authorities said that Tiktok would be asked to suspend data transfer operations to China within six months if they do not meet certain requirements.
European organizers said that weak Tijook guarantees endanger information about users across the bloc 27. The Irish authorities said that the Chinese government, under its equivalent laws and anti -allergic laws, could have enabled them to access the data of these users.
Tiktok, which includes about 175 million users across Europe, said in a statement that it is compatible with the European Union laws. Tijook said that the company “has never received a request for European user data from the Chinese authorities, and has never provided it with European user data to them.”
Tiktok said it is planning to appeal the decision, a step that could create a court battle that lasted for years between the Irish government, the main organization of Tiktok in Europe. European Tiktok headquarters in Ireland, and its government is accused of enforcing the general data protection list.
Tiktok said that the Irish Data Protection Committee did not explain the 2023 initiative to spend 12 billion euros on the fence in user data within the European Union. The project included the construction of a data center in Finland.
“This rises to rule in a previous position with long -term consequences for companies and all of them throughout Europe, which operates on a global scale,” Tijk said in a statement.
On Friday, Irish organizers said last month, Tiktok said it had discovered a “limited” amount of user data that had been stored on servers inside China after it has been repeatedly denied this.
Graham Doyle, Deputy Commissioner of the Irish Data Protection Committee, said in a statement that European users have not been granted “a level of protection mainly equivalent to that guaranteed within the European Union.”
