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DPC completes probe into TikTok transfers

Ireland’s data-protection watchdog has submitted the findings of an inquiry into social-media platform TikTok to its counterparts across Europe. 

The inquiry, which started in 2021, focuses on transfers by TikTok of personal data to China, and whether the company is complying with the GDPR in this respect. 

The draft decision from the Data Protection Commission (DPC) also considers whether TikTok is complying with its transparency obligations to users on such transfers of data. 

One month for responses   

Deputy commissioner Graham Doyle said that the watchdog had submitted its draft decision to other national supervisory authorities last week under article 60 of the GDPR. 

They have one month to send any “reasoned and relevant” objections or comments to the DPC. 

The TikTok probe was an own-volition inquiry, which means that the DPC took on the investigation on its own initiative, without a complaint from a third party.