TikTokfines & penalties
ByteDance Ltd.
The short-video platform owned by ByteDance. Its EU penalties centre on children's safety and unlawful transfers of user data to China.
- Penalties
- 2
- Total imposed
- ≈ $944Mexcludes annulled
- Largest
- $572M
- Span
- 2023 to 2025
Penalties by year
2023
$372M
2025
$572M
Every recorded penalty
2 penalties
TikTok · 2025
TikTok fined €530M over EU-China data transfers
The Irish DPC fined TikTok for unlawfully transferring EU users' data to China without ensuring equivalent protection, and for related transparency failures.
DPC · Ireland / EU€530M≈ $572M
TikTok · 2023
TikTok fined €345M over children's default settings
The Irish DPC found that TikTok set children's accounts to public by default and had weak age-assurance safeguards, exposing young users' content.
DPC · Ireland / EU€345M≈ $372M