personal data to servers located in China after new information emerged, it said in a state-ment on Thursday. The probe comes after the DPC issued a €530 million fine against the video sharing platform in April for failing to protect personal data of EU users when transfer-ring it to China. The watchdog said that during the investigation, TikTok claimed that trans-fers of EU users’ personal data to China took place by way of remote access only, and that the data was not stored on servers in China. But TikTok subsequently told the DPC that it discovered in February 2025 that limited EU personal data had been stored in China, by contrast with its previous claims.

The DPC - the lead privacy watchdog in Europe for TikTok’s owner ByteDance - said in its decision that it is concerned about the inaccurate information provided and that it consult-ed other national data protection authorities about what regulatory steps to take. The new investigation will determine whether TikTok has complied with its obligations un-der the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the context of third country trans-fers. (Euronews)