Ireland investigates TikTok over child, China data concerns

TikTok is facing 2 EU information privateness investigations, 1 into its handling of children's idiosyncratic information and different implicit its information transfers to China.

Ireland's information privateness watchdog, which is TikTok's pb regulator successful the European Union, said Tuesday that it has started 2 inquiries to analyse whether the fashionable abbreviated video app has breached stringent EU information privateness regulations.

The Data Protection Commission's archetypal probe volition look astatine whether TikTok complies with the General Data Protection Regulation, oregon GDPR, erstwhile it handles children's data, including the platform's settings for radical nether 18 and property verification measures for kids nether 13.

The 2nd probe focuses connected whether TikTok complies with GDPR erstwhile it transfers information to China, wherever its owner, ByteDance, is based. TikTok has faced accusations that it's a information hazard due to the fact that it sends user data to China.

TikTok said it volition afloat cooperate with the commission's investigation.

"The privateness and information of the TikTok community, peculiarly our youngest members, is simply a apical priority," the institution said successful a property statement. "We've implemented extended policies and controls to safeguard idiosyncratic information and trust connected approved methods for information being transferred from Europe."

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