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TikTok's European concern should beryllium "in European hands", pursuing the illustration of the United States, Germany's Culture Minister Wolfram Weimer said Tuesday.
ByteDance, the Chinese genitor institution of TikTok, ceded power of the platform's U.S. operations to a bulk American-owned associated venture, successful effect to a threatened prohibition successful the United States.
"I americium firmly convinced that Europe should travel the American illustration and that the company's ownership operation indispensable beryllium enactment up for discussion," Weimer told reporters earlier gathering his EU counterparts successful Brussels.
"That means we should spot TikTok's European concern successful European hands," helium said.
"TikTok collects information connected Europe's young radical connected an unimaginably ample scale. This information flows to servers whose root we bash not cognize precisely," helium added.
Weimer said Europe did not cognize what happened to the data, adding that "we are talking present astir the astir intimate information of Europe's youth".
Contacted by AFP, TikTok declined to comment.
TikTok has antecedently sought to allay EU concerns by storing European users' accusation successful Europe, with limitations connected who tin entree the data.
The EU enforcement did not enactment Weimer's comments.
Brussels did not look "at the colour of a company, astatine its ownership, astatine its state of origin. What we're looking astatine is compliance" with rules, European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier told reporters successful Brussels.
The level is the taxable of EU inquiries nether the bloc's integer contented rules.
The level is besides nether probe successful a abstracted probe opened successful precocious 2024 connected alleged overseas interference during the Romanian statesmanlike elections.
