Ticktock has just been fined $ 530 million ($ 600 million) in Ireland by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) of the country. The reason is to be done with the transfer of personal data of TicTock users in China in the European Economic Area (EEA).
The decision revealed that the EU’s GDPR rules have violated EU’s GDPR rules on transfer of EEA user data to China, and did not support its transparency requirements in this regard.
In addition to the penalty, Ticktock also needs to bring its data processing to compliance with GDPR within six months. Otherwise, the transfer of its data to China will be suspended.
Here DPC Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle has commented on this:
GDPR requires that the high level protection provided in the European Union continues where personal data is transferred to other countries. TickTock’s personal data violates the transfer of GDPR in China because TickTok failed to guarantee, guarantee, and show that the personal data of the EEA users, remotely accessed by the staff in China, was equally guaranteed within the EU. As a result of the failure to carry out the necessary assessments of tyctock, Ticktock does not consider the personal data under other laws physically identified physically by anti-Chinese anti-terrorism, counter-fashion and EU standards by Ticktock Chinese officials.
Tickktic initially said that he did not store EEA user data on servers located in China, but last month he informed the DPC to an issue that he found in February where “Limited EEA user data” was actually stored on servers in China. Thus, the initial information he provided proved inaccurate. Meanwhile, Ticktak has informed the DPC that the data has been deleted.
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