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Re:Privacy analysis of Tiktok’s app and website by JumpCrisscross on Friday December 06, 2019 @04:05PM (#21725971)
Can, practically speaking, European governments enforce GDPR with ByteDance?
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Re:Privacy analysis of Tiktok’s app and website by yding on Friday December 06, 2019 @04:58PM (#21726392)
Yes. ByteDance does business in Europe and therefore is subject to EU law.
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Re:Privacy analysis of Tiktok’s app and website by JumpCrisscross on Friday December 06, 2019 @05:35PM (#21726697)
> ByteDance does business in Europe and therefore is subject to EU law

Legally, yes. Practically, I’m not sure the EU could block a major Chinese app from its market for fear of retaliation.

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Re:Privacy analysis of Tiktok’s app and website by yding on Friday December 06, 2019 @06:04PM (#21726912)
India banned TikTok for a few months: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/02/tech/tiktok-ban-india-users/i...
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Re:Privacy analysis of Tiktok’s app and website by sudosysgen on Friday December 06, 2019 @10:27PM (#21728272)
They just have to give it a massive fine. Then they can block it for failure to pay.
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Re:Privacy analysis of Tiktok’s app and website by Nextgrid on Friday December 06, 2019 @09:04PM (#21727960)
In practice they can't even be bothered to enforce it on EU and US companies so this is a lost cause.
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