EU opens investigation into TikTok data transfer to China
This investigation also follows the imposition of a €530 million ($620 million) fine on TikTok in May.
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Ireland's Data Protection Commission has launched a new investigation into TikTok in relation to storing European user data on servers in China, the regulator announced Thursday.
The entity claimed that TikTok informed it in April that "in fact, limited EEA (European Economic Area) user data had been stored on servers in China," contrary to evidence presented by the Chinese-owned social networking giant.
This investigation also follows the imposition of a €530 million ($620 million) fine on TikTok in May for transferring European user data to the Asian giant.
The Irish regulator, which acts as the controversial social network's main overseer in the European Union, given that the company's EU headquarters are located in Ireland, will specifically examine data storage practices in this new probe.
TikTok is owned by Chinese company ByteDance.
Trump: "We have a buyer for TikTok"
"We have a buyer for TikTok," Trump said in an interview on the Fox network, adding that he would give more details in "two weeks." In mid-June, the president again postponed the deadline for the sale of the social network, to September 17.
This was the third time the Republican postponed the period for the Chinese company ByteDance to get rid of the social network, selling it to a U.S. company or shutting it down.
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