The Cnil has launched investigations regarding the application TikTok from the month of may 2020.
The application of chinese video entertaining TikTok, the heart of us-china tensions, has been the subject of investigations of the gendarme of personal data, which is uncertain on several points, including the modalities of its establishment in the european Union, said the Cnil to AFP, confirming information from Bloomberg.
“The Cnil has launched investigations regarding the site tiktok.com and the application TikTok from the month of may 2020”, said Tuesday a spokesman from the regulator to the AFP. At this time, a complaint had been made yet on “a request to delete a video,” and “the complainant has been invited to exercise its rights” directly from the Tiktok.
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But the regulator has since continued his investigations and examines in particular the question of the establishment of TikTok in the european Union”. Property of the start-up chinese ByteDance, TikTok had announced in the beginning of the year the installation of a regional centre in Europe, located in Dublin, which would designate the authority of ireland regulation of data as the “authority leader” for the future investigations in europe.
“To not be the sole competence of the authority of ireland and not of each of the authorities, TikTok will have to prove that its establishment in Ireland meets the conditions of a ‘main establishment’ within the meaning of the RGPD”, the rules of general data protection european, has been reported to the Cnil.
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Finally, the Cnil has identified additional “points of attention”, in which “the issues of provision of information to people, those modalities of exercise of rights, the flux outside of the EU, the measures taken with regard to minors”, she added.
TikTok announced in early August its will also install its first computer centre in Ireland, to store the data of european users, representing an investment of approximately € 420 million.
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This announcement comes at a time when the application, very popular among young people, is at the heart of tensions and economic and diplomatic between China and the United States.
Donald Trump has put pressure on the chinese group ByteDance to sell before mid-September TikTok to Microsoft or to another u.s. company, under penalty of not being able to operate in the United States. Washington accuses since months TikTok to be used by the intelligence services of the chinese, for monitoring purposes.
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The platform has always firmly denied any sharing of data with the chinese authorities and pointed out that their data centers are located outside of China.
