TikTok employees in China have access to user data of UK, EU. See details

TikTok, a video-sharing website owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has informed users that some of its employees in China have access to data from accounts in the United Kingdom and the European Union.

According to the social media behemoth, the "privacy policy" is "based on a demonstrated necessity to execute the work." Authorities throughout the world, including the United Kingdom and the United States, have expressed concern that data may be given to the Chinese government. Earlier this week, a US official demanded that the app be blocked in the country.

According to TikTok, the policy applies to the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Elaine Fox, the platform's head of privacy for Europe, said in a statement on Wednesday that a worldwide team assisted in maintaining a consistent, engaging and safe user experience.




Although TikTok currently stores user data from Europe in Singapore and the US, Fox stated that some employees in their corporate group in Canada, Brazil, China, Japan, Israel, the Philippines, Malaysia, South Korea, Singapore, and the United States have remote access to TikTok European user data.

They also stated that their efforts are focused on restricting the number of staff, who have access to European user data, reducing data transfers outside of the area, and keeping European user data locally.
She also stated that the technique was subject to a variety of stringent security controls and approval standards as well as approaches recognised by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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