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Ireland: High Court upheld EUR 530 million GDPR fine against TikTok and referred fining methodology questions to Court of Justice of the European Union

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High Court upheld EUR 530 million GDPR fine against TikTok and referred fining methodology questions to Court of Justice of the European Union

On 30 June 2026, the High Court of Ireland upheld the Data Protection Commission's decision to impose administrative fines totalling EUR 530 million on TikTok for infringements of Article 46(1) and Article 13(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Reg…

Scope

Policy Area
Data governance
Policy Instrument
Cross-border data transfer regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
platform intermediary: user-generated content
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
judiciary
Government Body
court

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2021-09-14
under deliberation

On 14 September 2021, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) initiated an investigation into Ti…

2025-02-21
under investigation

On 21 February 2025, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) submitted a draft decision under Article …

2025-05-02
in force

On 2 May 2025, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined TikTok Technology Limited EUR 530 m…

2025-05-27
under appeal

On 27 May 2025, TikTok filed an appeal at the High Court against the Irish Data Protection Commissi…

2025-07-14
under investigation

On 14 July 2025, the High Court granted TikTok leave to proceed with a legal challenge against the …

2025-11-13
under investigation

On 13 November 2025, the High Court granted TikTok's application to stay the data transfer suspensi…

2026-04-30
in force

On 30 April 2026, the Supreme Court dismissed the Data Protection Commission (DPC)'s appeal against…

2026-06-03
under investigation

On 3 June 2026, the Irish High Court upheld the Data Protection Commission's (DPC) findings under t…

2026-06-30
under investigation

On 30 June 2026, the High Court of Ireland upheld the Data Protection Commission's decision to impo…