EU Regulators Has Opened Two Data Privacy Investigations Into Tik Tok

Following months of intensive scrutiny due to worries regarding the platform’s ability to keep children’s data private, the Irish data authority has opened two separate investigations into TikTok.

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission announced on Tuesday that it has initiated two investigations into ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok out of its “own initiative” due to concerns regarding the manner in which TikTok handles the data of its users.

In December, the Irish regulator took over as the primary data protection authority for TikTok within the European Union.

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The first investigation will look into how TikTok processes the data of its underage users and whether or not it complies with the stringent data protection rules that the EU has in place.

The second issue stems from worries raised by Helen Dixon, the Irish privacy director, over the possibility that “maintenance and AI engineers in China” could have access to some user data belonging to EU citizens.

The Irish authority has opened scores of investigations into the privacy practices of internet giants, and those companies might be subject to huge fines if they violated the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which granted data commissions unprecedented jurisdiction to levy fines.

At the beginning of this month, the Luxembourg data watchdog levied a penalty of 225 million euros ($266 million) against WhatsApp,

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which is owned by Facebook Inc. This came after the watchdog levied a record-breaking penalty of 746 million euros against Amazon.com Inc.

“The privacy and safety of the TikTok community, particularly our youngest members, is our first priority,” the firm said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that it will comply with the Irish regulator.

The statement was issued in response to a request for comment from the Irish authority.

“We have adopted rigorous procedures and controls to secure user data and rely on approved ways for data being transferred from Europe, such as standard contractual terms,” the statement reads.

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