Data Commissioner assessing TikTok plans to establish data centre in Ireland

TikTok said the data centre would create hundreds of jobs and be operational by 2022. File Picture.

TikTok must be assessed to see if the company meets the criteria needed to avail of the same One Stop Shop (OSS) data processing mechanism currently given to other tech giants such as Facebook, the Irish Data Protection Commission has said.

It comes as TikTok considers establishing a data centre in Ireland.