Online privacy campaigners filed fresh complaints against social media giant TikTok and two other Chinese-owned companies on Thursday, saying they had failed to comply with data access requests.
Prominent Austria-based privacy campaign group Noyb (None of Your Business) already filed complaints against the three and another three Chinese-owned companies in January, accusing them of 鈥榰nlawfully鈥� sending Europeans鈥� personal data to China.
While Shein, Temu and Xiaomi provided the complainants with additional information, TikTok, AliExpress and WeChat 鈥榗ontinued to violate鈥� the EU鈥檚 landmark General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Noyb said.
Noyb said it filed the fresh complaints against TikTok with data protection authorities in Greece, against AliExpress in Belgium and against WeChat in the Netherlands to order them to fulfil the access requests and fine them.