2023-09-05 20:56:14
By Chloe Woitier
Posted 7 hours ago, Just Updated
This transfer is to continue until the end of 2024, when three data centers in Ireland and Norway will be operational. itchaznong / stock.adobe.com
A first data center, located in Ireland, is operational. The British cybersecurity group NCC is in charge of its supervision.
Reassure public authorities across Europe. While several countries of the Union have, at the beginning of the year, followed in the footsteps of Brussels by prohibiting their officials from installing TikTok on their professional devices, the video application of Chinese origin announced on Tuesday the progress of her“Project Clover”.
Unveiled in March, this project with a budget exceeding one billion euros has a dual objective. First, repatriate European and British user data, previously stored in the United States and Singapore, to the Union. Second, ensure that this information does not go to China. Either the number one fear of the authorities vis-à-vis the video service, suspected of being a possible agent of influence and espionage from Beijing.
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The first objective is in progress. TikTok announces that a first European “data center”, installed in Dublin, is now operational. The migration of European data has started there and should last…
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