The penalty is one of the largest imposed by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, TikTok’s primary European regulator.
We all know pretty much about TikTok. Don’t we? Those of us who does not know, it is a social media platform and short form video app where user can create, share and discover videos.
It is very popular among young mass all over the world. As of April, 2025 TikTok has a massive 1.59 billion active users. In 2025, TikTok experiences a high volume of video uploads, with an estimated 34 million videos posted daily, translating to 16,000 videos per minute and 981 thousand videos per hour.
We grant TikTok a great deal of permissions on our phones, including those related to our camera, storage, location, device information, and even our whole contact list. That is a ton of personal information.
Now in a fresh European regulator is set to slap a whooping €500 million to TikTok’s parent company ByteDance for illegally shipping European user data to China. According to the Bloomberg, the privacy fine will be issued by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission.
According to the article, the investigation indicates that ByteDance violated the EU’s GDPR by sending user data to China. But of course ByteDance can chose to appeal in Irish Court. This is not the first time that Ireland’s DPC has hit businesses with such a large sum. Meta was fined €1.2 billion for the infraction in 2023.
