The Chinese app TikTok has announced that it intends to open a "data center" in Ireland - the first in Europe - which will collect the data of its European users, with an investment of 500 million dollars. The BBC reports, explaining that so far videos, messages and other user data are stored in the United States, with a backup copy in Singapore. The announcement came as U.S. President Donald Trump accused TikTok of posing a national security risk and threatened to ban it from the U.S., effectively forcing the owner ByteDance to negotiate its sale to Microsoft.
TikTok will open a data collection center in Ireland
2020-08-06T14:07:32.450Z
For $ 500 million, the first in Europe (ANSA)The Chinese app TikTok has announced that it intends to open a "data center" in Ireland - the first in Europe - which will collect the data of its European users, with an investment of 500 million dollars. The BBC reports, explaining that so far videos, messages and other user data are stored in the United States, with a backup copy in Singapore. The announcement came as U.S. President Donald Trum...