PARIS: TikTok has found a partner in Europe to guarantee that users' data is not transferred to China, a company executive said on Friday (Mar 3), after the European Union banned the app on work devices. The EU's main concern is over data protection as fears rise in the West over how much access the short
PARIS: TikTok has found a partner in Europe to guarantee that users' data is not transferred to China, a company executive said on Friday , after the European Union banned the app on work devices.
"There are genuine concerns that Western governments have about China and therefore as a company whose founder was Chinese. Denmark's parliament this week told MPs and all staff to remove the app from mobile devices because of the"risk of spying".TikTok's parent company ByteDance is also under investigation by the Irish privacy regulator over whether it violated the EU's data protection law, the GDPR, with its processing of children's personal data and transfers of data to China.
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