TikTok’s compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation’s (GDPR) regulations is being investigated. Examining data transfers from EU residents to China and marketing that specifically target children is the major goal of the investigation.
TikTok is being investigated after members of the European Parliament voiced their concerns.
NEW: The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, confirms that #TikTok’s data transfers are under investigation & object of several ongoing proceedings.
This comes after concerns raised by Members of the European Parliament about data access from inside China https://t.co/aWlVl6hnXJ pic.twitter.com/dhOCojKKOW
— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) November 22, 2022
Prior to now, the micro-video platform was charged with breaking EU consumer laws. As a result, it promised to adjust its methods. In addition to the EU, TikTok has come under fire in the US for data privacy issues.
The top Republican commissioner previously opined that TikTok ought to be outlawed in the US and pushed Google and Apple to remove it from their respective app stores.
Gearrice claims that this was not the first time the European authorities had looked at TikTok. An EU lawsuit from earlier this year claimed that the site violated consumer protection laws in the aforementioned jurisdiction.
The United States has looked at TikTok in addition to the European Union. Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, and Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia, sent TikTok a warning a few days ago. The government released this as a warning to the populace about the hazards associated with using the programme.
Cotton referred to TikTok as one of the biggest monitoring operations ever that primarily targets American youth. According to Senator Warner, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, all of the information that your child inputs and receives is being kept in Beijing. TikTok poses a serious threat to the nation in the eyes of both senators.
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