June 30, 2026
Ireland's data watchdog will decide "in the coming period" whether to pursue fresh sanctions against TikTok after a court told it to reconsider an order that the short-video platform suspend data transfers from the European Union to China.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), TikTok's lead EU privacy regulator, fined the Chinese tech giant €530 million a year ago and ordered it to suspend data transfers to China if its processing is not brought into compliance within six months.
The Irish High Court paused the suspension order shortly afterwards pending an appeal by TikTok and while the court this month upheld the DPC's finding that TikTok breached EU privacy rules, it told the regulator to reconsider the corrective measures imposed alongside the fine.
Des Hogan, chair of the DPC, said the court had asked it to reassess the suspension order because, in its view, the regulator had not clearly set out how it considered some of TikTok's submissions.
