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TikTok was fined 530 million euros ($600 million) by its lead EU privacy regulator on Friday over concerns on how it protects user information and was ordered to suspend data transfers to China if its processing is not brought into compliance within six months. Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) said TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, failed to show that EU users’ personal data, some of which is remotely accessed by staff in China, was afforded the high level of protection provided for under EU law.
As a result, the short-video platform…
