tick tock has announced a series of measures to strengthen it personal and trying to calm growing distrust from regulators on both sides of the Atlantic. Video platform owned by the Chinese giant bytedance will start saving locally data European citizen.

The Clover Project, as it’s called, will open two new ones Data Center within the European Union (EU). One will be in Dublin, Irelandwhere such centers already exist and where the company has its offices Europe. The others will be located at Norwegian, more precisely in the Hamar region. It is currently unknown which company will manage these centers, although TikTok sources confirm that it will be a European provider.

Until now, European user data was stored on servers in the United States with backups in Singapore. The migration process to European servers starting in 2021 will continue into next year. So Europe will be the default location for that data. These changes mean a total annual investment of 1,200 million euros.

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TikTok’s strategic stance responds to the increasing restrictions it has imposed on application. On 23 February, the European Commission, European Parliament and European Council banned its use application in cellular your staff. Nearly four days later, the Canadian government made the same decision. Both actions are preceded by what happens in United States of Americawhere the use of TikTok has been banned on devices throughout the federal administration as well as in more than half of the states. Spanish it hasn’t taken that path yet.

In all of these cases, the wave of bans was responding to the fears of the authorities, who believed that TikTok could work for it espionage from China. While the backdoor allegations haven’t been proven, the scandal caused by revelations of employees using TikTok to monitor Forbes journalists hasn’t helped the company.

In November, TikTok indicated that its workers in up to 10 countries could manage data from European users, a deal that would work to improve the experience and operation of the app, something common on other platforms. The company has emphasized today that it will reduce data transfers out of region and employee access to that data. “Any access to data will not only comply with the law protection but also have to go through this additional security gate and check it first,” the statement read.

The changes announced Tuesday will affect EU citizens, but also citizens of the UK, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. More than 150 million people in these countries use TikTok every month.