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TikTok faces a €500m fine over EU data illegally sent to China.

TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is reportedly set to be hit with a fine of over €500 million for illegally shipping European user data to China.

The fine could be one of the largest handed down by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, TikTok’s main European regulator.

mediafaro.org/article/20250403

The TikTok logo on a smartphone. | Copyright AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File
Euronews · TikTok faces a €500m fine over EU data illegally sent to China.By Euronews

Sweden just isn't what it used to be...

"In most countries, the government knows when you were born, your social security number, where you live, how much you earn and how much your house is worth. Sweden is a bit different though. There, the tax authority doesn’t just use this information for administrative purposes – but sells it to data brokers who publish it online. This is a violation of EU law. Earlier this year, a Swedish data subject asked the country’s tax authority to stop selling his data. The country’s Supreme Court has recently ruled that freedom of information and privacy rights must be balanced and data must be marked as confidential, if the recipient is likely to process it in conflict with the GDPR. The tax authority rejected the request, claiming it simply follows the Swedish constitutional principle of transparency rather than the ruling by the Supreme Court. noyb now takes the authority to court."

noyb.eu/en/noyb-takes-swedish-

noyb.eunoyb takes Swedish tax authority to court for selling people’s personal dataIn Sweden, the tax authority doesn’t just use people's personal information for administrative purposes – but sells it to data brokers who publish it online.
#Sweden#EU#Taxes

The UK Data Bill could unleash unchecked automated decision-making in policing ⚠️👮

ORG has signed Big Brother Watch's open letter to warn that removing safeguards could greatly expand "possibilities for bias, discrimination and lack of transparency".

Read more ➡️ bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-r