{"id":260529,"date":"2025-07-13T03:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T03:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/260529\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T03:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T03:06:12","slug":"china-denies-asking-firms-to-collect-data-illegally-after-new-eu-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/260529\/","title":{"rendered":"China denies asking firms to collect data illegally after new EU probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: Beijing on Friday (Jul 11)\u00a0denied asking firms to &#8220;illegally&#8221; collect and store users&#8217; personal information, after an Irish regulator helping the European Union regulate data privacy began investigating Chinese social media giant TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Chinese government attaches great importance to and protects data privacy and security in accordance with the law,&#8221; foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing &#8220;has never and will never require companies or individuals to illegally collect or store data&#8221;, Mao said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope that the European side will respect the market economy and fair competition, and provide a fair, just and non-discriminatory business environment for companies from all countries,&#8221; she told a regular news conference.<\/p>\n<p>The social media giant has been in the crosshairs of Western governments for years over fears that personal data could be used by China for espionage or propaganda purposes.<\/p>\n<p>However, TikTok has insisted that it has never received any requests from Chinese authorities for European users&#8217; data.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok was fined \u20ac530 million (US$620 million) in May by the Data Protection Commission over sending personal data to China, although the Chinese social media giant had insisted this data was only accessed remotely.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok, which has 1.5 billion users worldwide, is a division of Chinese tech giant ByteDance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING: Beijing on Friday (Jul 11)\u00a0denied asking firms to &#8220;illegally&#8221; collect and store users&#8217; personal information, after an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1395,2000,299,5187,1699,449],"class_list":{"0":"post-260529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-tiktok"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114843719218558298","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}