TikTok fined €530M over EU-China data transfers
€530M
≈ $572M at the time
Irish Data Protection Commission
Ireland / EU · 2025
Status: Under appeal
What happened
The Irish DPC fined TikTok for unlawfully transferring EU users' data to China without ensuring equivalent protection, and for related transparency failures.
How it affected users
EU users' data was exposed to access under Chinese law without the safeguards the GDPR requires.
Status timeline
Apr 30, 2025
Decision adopted: €485M for unlawful transfers to China and €45M for transparency failures, with an order to bring transfers into compliance within six months.
Jun 3, 2026
The High Court ([2026] IEHC 347) rejected most of TikTok's grounds and left the €530M fine in place, but remitted the order suspending transfers to China to the DPC for reconsideration. TikTok's separate challenge to the amount of the fine is still to be heard.
Sep 21, 2026
The DPC's fines register lists the fine as pending appeal; DPC fines are not payable until confirmed by a court.
Sources
- Irish DPC: TikTok fined €530M over transfers of EEA user data to Chinaregulator
- Irish DPC fines register: status of each DPC fineregulator
- High Court: TikTok Technology Limited v Data Protection Commission [2026] IEHC 347court
- The Next Web: Irish court tells regulator to reconsider TikTok's China data-transfer bannews
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Cite this entry
Deepak Gupta, "TikTok fined €530M over EU-China data transfers," Tech Fines Directory, guptadeepak.com, 2025-05-02. https://guptadeepak.com/tech-fines/violation/tiktok-ireland-datatransfers-2025/