TikTok Fined IDR 9.8 Trillion For Sending European User Data To China

TikTok was fined by the Irish Court (doc. unsplash).

JAKARTA TikTok is subject to fines by the Irish Court for sending user data in Europe to servers in China. As a result of this action, TikTok was fined 530 million euros (Rp 9.8 trillion).

Pengirim data pengguna ke luar negeri merupakan bagian dari pelanggaran Peraturan Perlindungan Data Umum (GDPR) Uni Eropa. Menurut temuan Komisi Perlindungan Data Irlandia (DPC), TikTok tidak dapat menjamin keamanan pengiriman datanya.

The company cannot guarantee whether data transfers to China have been protected by the same standards as those applied in the European Union. In addition, the agency is concerned that Chinese authorities can access TikTok user data in Europe.

The determination of this fine consists of two categories. First, TikTok was fined 485 million euros (Rp 9 trillion) for sending user data to China, while a fine of 45 million euros (Rp 839 billion) was given because the company failed to explain the efforts to transfer adequate data.

The Irish court has given TikTok six months to re-adjust its data processing. TikTok can also still file an appeal if it does not accept the fine demand.

This is the third largest GDPR fine the Irish Court has ever set. Two other technology companies that have been fined GDPR in a fairly large nominal amount are Meta and Amazon.

TikTok has also been fined GDPR in 2023 for $367 for processing children's data. At that time, TikTok had updated its privacy policy, but now the video platform policy has violated GDPR again.