Posted on 08/08/2020 8:46:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
TikTok said on Thursday that it will set up its first European data center in Ireland. The announcement comes amid increasing scrutiny over the video app’s privacy and security risks.
U.S. President Donald Trump, citing national security concerns, on July 31 gave TikTok’s owner, Beijing-based internet giant Bytedance Technology, an ultimatum: either sell TikTok’s U.S. operations to Microsoft or any other U.S. company by Sept. 15, or get banned in the United States.
Until recently, TikTok Inc., the company’s U.S. entity, was the official data controller of TikTok. After July 29, the service provider for European Economic Area (EEA)-Swiss users changed to TikTok Ireland, while the service provider for UK users changed to TikTok UK, according to a statement from TikTok.
The company’s “Trust and Safety Hub,” set up in Dublin in January, deals with regulators and governments in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).
TikTok said the 420 million euro ($499 million) new regional data center will enable “faster loading time” to give users a better experience,
“When our data center is operational, European user data will be stored in this new location.”
The investment in Ireland also comes at a fraught time in relations between the Chinese regime and the West, with disagreements on a range of issues from trade and the handling of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus outbreak to the political situation in Hong Kong.
Ireland–Europe’s Data Center Hub
TikTok said the investment will create “Hundreds of New Jobs” in Ireland.
Martin Shanahan, CEO of IDA Ireland, a semi-state agency promoting foreign direct investment into Ireland, said, “TikTok’s decision to establish its first European data center in Ireland, representing a substantial investment here by the company, is very welcome and, following on from the establishment of its EMEA Trust & Safety Hub in Dublin
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Really shows how DESPERATE the CCP is about keeping its data mining operations going.
I think back many years to the time I posed the same question to a granddaughter about Facebook...
My god our society is just a idiotic cesspool. Freaking TikTok?!
“...My god our society is just a idiotic cesspool. Freaking TikTok?!...”
How did we ever grow up and grow older without it all????
Tik Tok is about to join Vine on the social media video app trash pile with Instagram’s rollout of its Reels capability. Facebook owns Instagram. Zuckerberg may be a jerkoff, but he’s a conniving jerkoff.
Not that “conniving” is a redeeming quality.
That should work fine since Ireland hates us more than China.
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