File photo of the TikTok app logo shown on an iPhone in Houston, Texas, on Jan. 17, 2025. Ashley Landis/AP Photo
The European Union has launched a fresh privacy investigation into micro-video platform TikTok over the storage of European users’ data in China, the regulator announced on July 10.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) opened the inquiry as a follow-up to an earlier probe, which concluded on May 2 and resulted in TikTok being fined $620 million (530 million euros) for violating the EU’s data protection rules.
