TIKTOK Europe established three data centers to protect user data security

(Brussels Comprehensive) China short video sharing applied to the international version of Douyin's international version of Tiktok, after being disabled by the Western governments, it is announced that it will build three new data centers in Ireland and Norway to protect European users' data security.

Tiktok is responsible for the European market vice president of Public Policy, Bertelen, said on Wednesday (March 8) that it will promote a plan called the "Project Clover" to set up three data centers in Europe.The data of 150 million European users per month is stored in Europe.

According to the plan, Tiktok will open two data centers in Ireland in the next few weeks and open a third data center in Norway later this year.

Tiktok will invest 1.2 billion euros (about S $ 1.7 billion) at these three data centers each year. European user data currently stored in Singapore and the United States will also be transferred to these three data centers. Migration work will continue until 2024Year.

In addition, Tiktok also plans to announce a European partner in charge of supervising the way of processing data in Europe.However, Bertelen said that cooperation is still in discussion, and in the future, the specific cooperation target will be announced in the future.

It is reported that TIKTOK has introduced the plan to the British government this week and tried to further publicize the policy makers of the European Union, France and the Netherlands.

At present, the European Union announced on the grounds that "security issues" announced on the official device to disable Tiktok, and the Netherlands is also considering whether to follow up with a similar ban.

Berten pointed out that Tiktok's data storage method means that the Chinese government cannot force Tiktok to hand over European data.He insisted: "The Chinese government has never asked us to provide data. If they ask, we will refuse."

He pointed out that the "Sanya Plan" has started before that of multiple countries including the United States, the European Union and Canada, and government employees have started.