Vestager Sees “Privacy Concerns” On TikTok

EU Digital Commissioner Margrethe Vestager has urged Chinese tech companies to comply with EU regulations. “Chinese companies have to play by our rules,” said Vestager in an interview with the Tagesspiegel on Sunday. With regard to the video app TikTok, which is especially popular with young people, and its Chinese parent company ByteDance, the Dane said that there were “concerns about privacy and data protection”. “But we haven’t received any competition complaints about TikTok so far,” she added.

The EU must make the principles of fair competition clear to Chinese digital companies, said the EU Commission Vice-President. “Anything else would be unfair to companies that pay their taxes, create jobs and innovations here,” said Vestager.
In addition, Vestager believes that greater regulation of digital companies such as Apple or Facebook through American politics is possible. “There is a turning point in the US right now,” she said. There is increasing bipartisan consensus in the US that “some things in the digital sector are not going in the right direction,” Vestager said.

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