The move comes after a lengthy investigation found the Chinese business fell foul of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation in sending the information to China to be accessed by engineers, added the people, who spoke under condition of anonymity.
TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd. is set to be hit by a privacy fine of more than EUR500 million ($739.67 million) for illegally shipping European users’ data to China, adding to the growing global backlash over the video-sharing app.
Ireland’s data protection commission, the company’s main regulator in Europe, will issue the penalty against TikTok before the end of the month, according to people familiar with the matter.
