cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/38682823

Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced that it has opened an inquiry into TikTok Technology Limited’s (TikTok) transfers of EEA users’ personal data to servers located in China.

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In April 2025, TikTok informed the DPC of an issue that it had discovered in February 2025, namely that limited EEA user data had in fact been stored on servers in China, contrary to TikTok’s evidence to the previous inquiry.

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The DPC’s decision, which issued following the inquiry cooperation procedure with peer EU regulators under the GDPR One Stop Shop mechanism, expressed its deep concern that TikTok had submitted inaccurate information to that inquiry. In its press release issued at the time of the conclusion of that inquiry, the DPC stated that it was taking those developments “very seriously” and was “considering what further regulatory action may be warranted, in consultation with our peer EU Data Protection Authorities”. As a result of that consideration, the DPC has now decided to open this new inquiry into TikTok.

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