Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with €530M fine over data transfers to China
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Re: Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with €530M fine over data transfers to China
#2Is that massive? Meh ... Probably not. Probably still within cost of business range, right?
Re: Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with €530M fine over data transfers to China
#3> Grahn said TikTok has “has never received a request for European user data from the Chinese authorities, and has never provided European user data to them.”
lol, ok. Chinese intelligence services must be completely asleep at the wheel (doubtful)
Re: Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with €530M fine over data transfers to China
#4Whoever cares about privacy would certainly stay away from TokTok. This is just absurd. Ban the app already
Re: Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with €530M fine over data transfers to China
#5Is that massive? Meh ... Probably not. Probably still within cost of business range, right?
2% of annual revenue, and 6 months to comply or presumably further sanctions coming
Re: Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with €530M fine over data transfers to China
#6> Grahn said TikTok has “has never received a request for European user data from the Chinese authorities, and has never provided European user data to them.” lol, ok. Chinese intelligence services must be completely asleep at the wheel (doubtful)
I am convinced they would absolutely tell the truth if they had handed over any data to the Chinese government and would never just lie about it to protect their business interests /s
Re: Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with €530M fine over data transfers to China
#7'massive' -- by which standards?
It is high time we got used to companies being fined a reasonable fraction of their revenue. And TikTok's global revenue last year alone was estimated at $20 billion to $26 billion [1].
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/technology/tiktok-ban-byt...
Re: Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with €530M fine over data transfers to China
#8Є in the title of the HN submission is not the Euro symbol.
€ is.
Re: Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with €530M fine over data transfers to China
#9> Grahn said TikTok has “has never received a request for European user data from the Chinese authorities, and has never provided European user data to them.” lol, ok. Chinese intelligence services must be completely asleep at the wheel (doubtful)
Meaning that there is an intermediary?
Re: Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with €530M fine over data transfers to China
#10Whoever cares about privacy would certainly stay away from TokTok. This is just absurd. Ban the app already
"Ban the app already"
And FB, Insta, Google, Youtube, ..?
The only difference with TikTok is that it is based in china.