TikTok has opened its first data center in Europe to assuage concerns over Chinese state surveillance.
The company says that as part of its ongoing response to data privacy concerns surrounding the video-sharing app’s connections to China, it is currently migrating the data of European users to servers in Dublin.
ByteDance, a Chinese company, which owns TikTok, asserts that it has never provided data to Beijing.
A request for access could come at any time, according to critics.
A European security firm has access to the massive video-sharing platform in order to audit its data security and cyber-security controls.
TikTok has called this “Project Clover”, due to the crucial part that Ireland is playing. It is concurrent with “Project Texas,” which involved promising comparable policies to US legislators in 2020.
On the basis of cybersecurity and privacy concerns, TikTok earlier this year was subject to a number of government restrictions on use.
The UK government, the European Parliament, the European Commission, and the EU Council are just a few of the organizations that have decided to ban the app from being used on official devices.
Source-BBC
