{"id":69198,"date":"2025-05-02T19:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/69198\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:30:11","slug":"why-tiktok-ruling-sparks-trouble-for-eu-china-relations-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/69198\/","title":{"rendered":"Why TikTok ruling sparks trouble for EU-China relations \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday\u2019s ruling means the \u201cscrew is turning\u201d on data flows to China, said Joe Jones, research director at the International Association of Privacy Professionals, which represents people working in the world of privacy globally. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had over a decade of EU-U.K., EU-U.S. fights and sagas on [data flows]. This is the first time we\u2019ve seen anything significant on any other country outside of that transatlantic triangle \u2014 and it\u2019s China,\u201d said Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Most high-level enforcement of the EU\u2019s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has so far targeted American tech giants, as Europe and the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/166198\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have bickered over legal protections<\/a> for personal data sent across the Atlantic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chinese surveillance and data privacy breaches remained out of the EU\u2019s crosshairs but the growth in popularity and EU presence of big Chinese players has now cast a spotlight on Beijing\u2019s techno-authoritarian tendencies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, six Chinese companies (AliExpress, SHEIN, Temu, WeChat and Xiaomi as well as TikTok) were the <a href=\"https:\/\/noyb.eu\/en\/tiktok-aliexpress-shein-co-surrender-europeans-data-authoritarian-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">target of complaints<\/a> filed with European data protection authorities by Austrian privacy group Noyb, founded by privacy activist Max Schrems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The third-largest fine ever for a breach of the EU\u2019s data protection rulebook, Friday\u2019s decision by Ireland\u2019s Data Protection Commission highlights that China\u2019s laws are fundamentally at odds with European data protection principles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday\u2019s ruling means the \u201cscrew is turning\u201d on data flows to China, said Joe Jones, research director at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[7960,1395,2814,7962,12491,32054,7963,6511,2000,34377,299,5187,1699,678,6512],"class_list":{"0":"post-69198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-big-data","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-data","11":"tag-data-privacy","12":"tag-data-breaches","13":"tag-data-centers","14":"tag-data-flows","15":"tag-data-protection","16":"tag-eu","17":"tag-eu-u-s-privacy-shield","18":"tag-europe","19":"tag-european","20":"tag-european-union","21":"tag-ireland","22":"tag-privacy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114439901960564466","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69198","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=69198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}