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EU comes after TikTok yet again

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What happened: On July 10, European data regulators in Ireland opened an investigation into the storage by TikTok of EU user data on servers located in China.
Some context: In May, TikTok was fined EUR 530 million over a similar breach in which user data was remotely accessible by company employees ...



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