An Irish EU data privacy regulator announced Thursday that it had opened an investigation into TikTok over the transfer of personal data of European users to servers in China.
The European Commission fined TikTok €530 million ($620 million) last May for transferring personal data to China, despite the Chinese social media giant's assertion that the data was only accessed remotely.
The European Commission announced Thursday that it had informed TikTok in April that "limited EEA user data was indeed stored on servers in China," contrary to the evidence the company had provided.
The regulator added that it had expressed "deep concern" in its previous investigation that "TikTok had provided inaccurate information."
The TikTok app is owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance.
However, because its European headquarters are located in Ireland, the Irish authority is the primary European regulator for this social platform, as well as other companies such as Google, Meta, and Apple.
The DPA is tasked with monitoring companies' compliance with the European Union's strict General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which was introduced in 2018 to protect European consumers from personal data breaches.
The authority has imposed heavy fines on tech companies as part of the EU's efforts to regulate big tech companies on privacy, competition, misinformation, and tax matters.
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