TIKTOK REVEALS UK AND EU USER DATA CAN BE ACCESSED BY CCP – TikTok’s head of privacy for Europe, Elaine Fox, may have inadvertently revealed the CCP has access to European private user data when she responded to a query about who can access this private data. She said, “we allow certain employees within our corporate group located in Brazil, Canada, China, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States remote access to TikTok European user data.”
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TikTok says staff in China can access UK and EU user data – www.bbc.co.uk
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Elaine Fox, the platform’s head of privacy for Europe, said in a statement on Wednesday that a global team helped to keep the user experience “consistent, enjoyable and safe”.
Although TikTok currently stores European user data in the US and Singapore, “we allow certain employees within our corporate group located in Brazil, Canada, China, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States remote access to TikTok European user data,” Ms Fox said.
“Our efforts are centred on limiting the number of employees with access to European user data, minimising data flows outside of the region, and storing European user data locally,” she added.
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