NOYB files GDPR complaints against 6 Chinese companies

16/01/2025 | NOYB

Austrian privacy and digital rights advocacy group NOYB has filed complaints with the data protection authorities (DPAs) in Greece, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Austria against six Chinese-owned companies, including TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN, Temu, WeChat and Xiaomi, for unlawful data transfers to China. Four of the companies admit to sending data to China, while the remaining two say they transfer data to undisclosed "third countries".

NOYB argues that the EU only permits transfers of personal data to third countries where the destination country doesn't undermine the protection of such data. When sending personal data to an authoritarian surveillance state such as China, the country cannot provide an essentially equivalent level of data protection under Articles 44 and 46 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Therefore, the transfers must stop immediately.

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