TikTok owner ByteDance fined EUR530 million in Irish GDPR data-transfer case
By Matthew Newman ( May 2, 2025, 10:02 GMT | Insight) -- TikTok owner ByteDance has been fined 530 million euros by Ireland’s privacy watchdog following an investigation into possible transfers of users’ data to China, the authority said today. A decision against TikTok follows several years of concern expressed by governments and privacy advocates that the Chinese government could access data on individual users through the social network. TikTok has argued that the Chinese authorities have never made a request for European users’ data and the company hasn’t provided any data to them.TikTok owner ByteDance has been fined 530 million euros (around $600 million) by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, following an investigation into possible transfers of users’ data to China, the authority said today....
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