The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined TikTok owner ByteDance €530 million ($602 million) for breaching the European Union’s privacy laws. The regulator said TikTok sent European user data to China without being able to guarantee that the information was safe from government surveillance.
It was reported last month that the DPC was going to slap TikTok with such a fine — the third-largest ever for a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) breach. The regulator confirmed that on Friday.
The DPC, which handles enforcement of
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