The Data Protection Commission (DPC) in the Republic of Ireland has opened an inquiry into TikTok over the storage of European users’ data in China as a follow-up to concerns raised in April 2025.
Its fresh inquiry focuses on the storage of data in China, which was not in the remit of the previous probe. The DPC issued a €530 million penalty against TikTok in May for violating EU privacy laws following a probe into the platform’s transfer of European user data to China. TikTok is appealing the fine.
The DPC explained the company told it in April about “an issue that it had discovered in February 2025, namely that limited EEA [European Economic Area] user data had in fact been stored on servers in China, contrary to TikTok’s evidence to the previous inquiry”.
A representative for TikTok told Reuters the company “promptly deleted this minimal about of data from the servers and informed the DPC”.
Source: Mobile World Live
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