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EU opens new probe into TikTok data transfer to China

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Last updated: 2025/07/10 at 3:38 PM
News Room Published 10 July 2025
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The probe follows what regulators say was an admission by TikTok that the personal data of European users had been stored in China Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File Brandon Bell

Peter MURPHY, Alexandra BACON

An Irish regulator helping police European Union data privacy said Thursday it had launched an investigation into TikTok over the transfer of European users’ personal data to servers in China.

TikTok was fined 530 million euros ($620 million) in May by the Data Protection Commission over sending personal data to China, though the Chinese social media giant had insisted this data was only accessed remotely.

The DPC on Thursday said it had been informed by TikTok in April that “limited EEA user data had in fact been stored on servers in China,” then deleted, contrary to evidence previously presented by the company.

The watchdog said it had expressed “deep concern” in its previous investigation that “TikTok had submitted inaccurate information”.

TikTok plans to appeal the May fine — the second largest ever imposed by the DPC.

The social media giant has been in the crosshairs of Western governments for years over fears personal data could be used by China for espionage or propaganda purposes.

But TikTok has insisted that it has never received any requests from Chinese authorities for European users’ data.

– Big tech –

TikTok, which has 1.5 billion users worldwide, is a division of Chinese tech giant ByteDance.

But since it has its European headquarters in Ireland, the Irish authority is the lead regulator in Europe for the social platform — as well as others such as Google, Meta and Apple.

The DPC is tasked with ensuring companies comply with the EU’s strict General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), launched in 2018 to protect European consumers from personal data breaches.

Its latest probe against the Chineseowned giant will determine “whether TikTok has complied with its relevant obligations” to comply with the GDPR.

The data protection watchdog has imposed a number of massive fines against tech companies as the EU seeks to rein in big tech firms over privacy, competition, disinformation and taxation.

For years, TikTok promoted its data protection policies. It made much of what it called Project Clover, a plan to invest 12 billion euros (currently $14 billion) in European data security over 10 years, from 2023 onwards.

It claimed that Europeans’ data was by default stored in Norway, Ireland, and the United States and “that employees in China have no access to restricted data,” such as phone numbers or IP addresses.

TikTok told AFP in May that it had “promptly” informed the DPC of a technical issue regarding data transfers.

The social media giant is also under pressure in the United States where it faces a looming ban if it does not find a nonChinese buyer.

US President Donald Trump said at the end of June that a group of buyers had been found for TikTok, adding that he could name the purchasers in a matter of weeks.

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