The short-video app, which is owned by Chinese know-how conglomerate ByteDance, final month admitted that a few of its staff improperly accessed TikTok consumer information of two journalists to attempt to determine the supply of knowledge leaks to the media.
The firm has for the final three years sought to reassure Washington that the private information of U.S. residents can’t be accessed and its content material can’t be manipulated by China’s Communist Party or another entity underneath Beijing’s affect.
In the European Union, TikTok along with quite a few firms face new stringent tech guidelines that can go into pressure within the subsequent two years requiring on-line platforms to do extra to police the web for unlawful content material.
“The objective of the meeting with TikTok was to review how the company is preparing for complying with its obligations under the European Commission’s regulation, namely the Digital Services Act (DSA) and possibly under the Digital Markets Act (DMA),” the EU govt mentioned in an announcement.
“At the assembly the events additionally mentioned GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and matters of privacy and data transfer obligations with a reference to the recent press reporting on aggressive data harvesting and surveillance in the U.S,” it mentioned.
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Chew is scheduled to fulfill Values and Transparency Commissioner Vera Jourova and Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson after Vestager. TikTok didn’t have any instant remark.