TikTok faces fresh European privacy investigation over China data transfers

The Irish national watchdog serves as TikTok’s lead data privacy regulator in the 27-nation EU because the company’s European headquarters is based in Dublin

TikTok is owned by China’s ByteDance. File picture: Ashley Landis/AP

TikTok is facing a fresh European Union privacy investigation into user data sent to China, regulators said.

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) opened the inquiry as a follow-up to a previous investigation that ended earlier this year with a 530 million euro (£456 million) fine after it found the video sharing app put users at risk of spying by allowing remote access to their data from China.