TikTok announces the opening of two new data centers, one in Ireland and one in Norway, with an announced annual investment of €1.2 billion. TikTok is criticized for its ties to China, but is trying to convince the EU authorities of the complete security of user data.
In addition to its European data center in Dublin announced last year, TikTok confirmed two more European data centers on Wednesday: a second data center in Dublin and a third in the Hamar region of Norway.
TikTok says it has already started storing European TikTok users’ data in Ireland and will continue to store European users’ data locally in 2023 and 2024. Once completed, the three data centers will be the default storage location for TikTok’s European users, with an annual investment of 1.2 billion euros, the company, part of the ByteDance group, said.
The app has 150 million users in Europe.
For better oversight and independent checks in this regard, TikTok has announced that it will select a third-party European data protection partner. It will monitor and review ordering and data protection, monitor data flows, provide independent verification and report incidents.
TikTok is announcing details of Project Clover, which will “create a secure European enclave for the data of TikTok users in the UK and the European Economic Area,” the company says. Through Project Clover, TikTok is promising a number of new measures to improve existing data protection.
A dedicated internal team has been working on the Clover project since last year, and the implementation of these new industry measures will continue throughout this year and into 2024.
“Based on the American model of data security, TikTok will improve data access control by introducing security barriers. This will result in employee access to UK and European TikTok user data and the transfer of European user data. Any access to data will not only comply with data protection laws, but will first have to pass through these security barriers and additional checks,” TikTok said.
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