TikTok is facing a fresh European Union privacy investigation into user data transferred to China. The Irish Data Protection Commission opened the inquiry as a follow up to a previous investigation that ended earlier this year with a 530 million euro fine.

Ireland's powerful Data Protection Commission (DPC) has opened a new inquiry into TikTok over the storage of European users' data in China after the short-video platform disclosed in April that some data had temporarily been stored on Chinese servers.

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) opened a new inquiry into TikTok’s transfers of EU users’ personal data to servers located in China after new information emerged, it said in a statement on Thursday.