The social media giant’s admission that it did indeed hold EU user data in China, contrary to all of its promises under Project Clover, could jeopardise its credibility on the issue from here on in
Does TikTok’s vaunted €12bn Project Clover, designed to keep EU accounts from the possession of the Chinese government, actually work?
The admission by the social media giant that EU user data was being held on Chinese servers two years after the firm guaranteed that such a thing couldn’t happen is, in the words of the Irish data regulator, “serious”.
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