Netherlands: TikTok fined €750,000 for insufficient protection and violation of children's privacy

On 22 July 2021, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, Dutch DPA) fined TikTok €750,000 for failing to meet children's privacy protection obligations under Dutch and European (GDPR) law. Specifically, TikTok did not translate the privacy statement in Dutch, which violates privacy laws. Further possible violations will now be investigated by the Irish Data Protection Commission, seeing as TikTok moved their headquarters to Ireland, which makes the Irish DPA the responsible commission. Before, TikTok did not have its headquarters in Europe, which allowed any European DPA to investigate.