By skyforbes 
Oh TikTok. Here we find you in hot water again. The European Union has fined TikTok €530 million which is around $600 million dollars. What’s the reason for the fine you ask? TikTok has been fined for sending European user’s data to Chinese servers.
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TikTok Caught Doing What It Denied
The Verge is reporting that TikTok has violated the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. The Irish Data Protection Commission caught TikTok violating GDPR laws. There was no guarantee the data would be protected to a standard equivalent to the European Union’s while being transferred.
The EU fined TikTok €485 million for sending the data to China. It fined the company an additional €45 million due to its privacy policy not fully explaining the data transfers. TikTok did update its privacy policy in 2022 to be “compliant” according to the EU. TikTok also promised to invest $13.6 billion (€12 billion) in data centers in the EU to appease the courts. But that didn’t change the courts mind.
Mishandling Of Data
TikTok continuously said that user data was only remotely accessed from China. But none of the data was stored on servers in China. However…