Irish Data Protection Commission Fines TikTok $600 Million

Ireland’s data-privacy watchdog fined TikTok about $600 million for failing to guarantee that user data sent to China was protected from government surveillance, a blow to the company’s efforts to convince Western countries that it is safe to use. The Irish Data Protection Commission said that TikTok had failed to demonstrate that any user data it sends to China would be protected from government access under Chinese laws covering things like espionage and cybersecurity.

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