TikTok—Irish DPC fined TikTok €530 million for illegally transferring EU user data to China
Ireland's Data Protection Commission fined TikTok €530 million (€485M for data transfer violations, €45M for transparency failures) after finding TikTok transferred EEA user data to China without adequate safeguards. TikTok also admitted it had provided inaccurate information to the inquiry, revealing EU data had been stored on Chinese servers contrary to its own evidence. Third-largest GDPR fine ever and first EU data transfer fine involving China.
Scoring Impact
| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corporate Transparency | -against | secondary | -0.50 |
| User Privacy | -against | primary | -1.00 |
| Overall incident score = | -0.443 | ||
Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (critical ×2) × confidence (0.59)× agency (negligent ×0.5)
Evidence (1 signal)
Irish DPC fined TikTok €530M for GDPR violations in EU-to-China data transfers
The Irish Data Protection Commission fined TikTok €530 million after finding the company transferred EEA user data to China without adequate safeguards. TikTok also admitted it had provided inaccurate information to the inquiry, revealing EU data had been stored on Chinese servers contrary to its evidence. The DPC ordered suspension of data transfers within 6 months.