The European Union wants to limit the activities of the media platform TikTok, the company announced the construction of two data centers in Europe.
Criticism of the Tiktok platform and its Chinese parent company ByteDance is growing in the European Union. Critical claims center on privacy, security, the sending of European users’ personal data to China, and the spread of Russian disinformation on the app. At the same time, TikTok confirmed last year that its employees in China have access to user data. EU.
TikTok has said it wants to address security concerns in the US and Europe, and on Friday announced plans to build two data centers in Europe, one in Ireland and one in the EU. writes The Wall Street Journal.
In an effort to improve relations with the European Union, TikTok executives recently visited Brussels and promised that the platform would comply with new EU data protection rules. Company representatives also claim that TikTok is not cooperating with Chinese authorities.
Following the example of US politicians who are concerned that TikTok threatens their national security, European authorities plan to significantly restrict the activities of the media platform. The Dutch government, for example, has advised public sector workers not to use Tiktok during their work. And the head of the British Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee said the country’s citizens should remove TikTok from their phones.
Yesterday, Friday, TikTok announced that the platform has 125 million active users in the European Union.
In the US Congress TikTok is now prohibited. As our publication reported, following the Senate, the House of Representatives of the US Congress imposed a ban on the use of the popular TikTok application on work devices. In addition, 19 US states have already partially blocked TikTok for government devices due to concerns that the Chinese government could use it to track Americans and censor content.
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