The State’s data privacy watchdog is engaging with TikTok, the Chinese-owned video-sharing app, to see whether the user data of EU citizens is being sent to China. The Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon told an online event on Wednesday that engineers in China may be able to see the data of EU residents who use the popular app. “TikTok tells us that EU data is transferred to the US and not to China. Companies with EU headquarters in Ireland can make the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) their lead supervisory authority for the EU to avoid dealing with multiple EU regulators. The Irish DPC is carrying out 27 “Big Tech” investigations into internet and social media multinationals including Facebook and Google under the one-stop-shop mechanism.

Source: The Irish Times March 11, 2021 21:22 UTC