tik tok have confirmed to European users that their information is accessible from other parts of the world, including China.

The information comes from the inclusion of the Privacy Policy of tik tokwhich has been updated to ensure that the user experience is “consistent, enjoyable and safe”.

foreign database

According to the app, staff in different countries including China, Israel, Brazil, Canada and the United States have access to European user data.

“Based on a demonstrated need to do your job, subject to a set of robust security controls and approval protocols, and through methods recognized under the GDPR [el reglamento general de la UE]. data protection regulations], we allow certain employees within our group of companies located in Brazil, Canada, China, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea and the United States, remote access to European user data from tik tok”, referring to the platform’s head of privacy at EuropeElaine Fox.

Depending on the platform, the data can be used to check some aspects of the platform such as algorithm performance.

Concerns in Europe

The privacy policy update, which takes effect in the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area and Switzerland, and will activate on December 2, takes place in the context of political and regulatory pressure over the use of data generated by the app, which has more than one billion users worldwide. .

Irish data supervisor, which has jurisdiction over tik tok across the European Union, also launched an investigation into the “transfer of personal data from tik tok a China“.

In a privacy policy update, Fox says that tik tok does not collect “precise location information” from users on Europeeither based on GPS technology or otherwise.

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