European Government Starts Migration Of TikTok User Data To Its Own Data Center

TikTok is starting to migrate European user data (photo: Pixabay)

JAKARTA - TikTok's parent company, ByteDance has started migrating European user data as a Project Clover update, a program to build a specially strengthened protection environment around European user data.

Theo Total, Vice President of European Public Policy said that to demonstrate its commitment to locally storing European user data, the European government has set up three new data centers.

"Our first data center in Dublin, Ireland, now the operation and migration of European user data to the center has begun. Two other data centers in Norway and Ireland are being built," explained my boss on TikTok's official website.

Furthermore, the European government has also involved third parties to audit user data controls and protection in its region, monitor data streams, provide independent verification, and report any incidents that exist independently.

The third party that is trusted to carry out this task is the NCC Group, a cyber security company that has long been respected globally with offices across Europe, including Germany, Portugal, the Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, and the UK.

"NCC Group will monitor data coming in and out of a safe environment to independently validate that only approved employees can access limited data types," he added.

The NCC Group will also conduct a sustainable security assessment of the new security gateways built around European user data, the TikTok app, data centers, and other TikTok infrastructure.

All these controls and operations are designed to ensure that our European user data is protected within a specially designed protected environment, and can only be accessed by employees approved with strict independent surveillance and verification.

"Our monitoring, monitoring, and objective guarantees mean platform users in Europe and the UK can have confidence in TikTok's improved data security standards," said Stephen Bailey, Director of Global Privacy at the NCC Group.