Friday’s decision means that the “screw turns” on data flows to China, said Joe Jones, research director of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, who represents people working in the world of privacy in the world.
“We have had more than a decade of UE-UK, EU-US on (data flow). This is the first time that we have seen something important in any other country outside this transatlantic triangle – and it is China, “said Jones.
Most of the high-level application of the general EU data protection regulations (GDPR) has so far targeted American technology giants, as Europe and the United States have biconing on legal protections for personal data sent to the Atlantic.
The violations of Chinese surveillance and the confidentiality of the data remained outside the reticle of the EU, but the growth of popularity and the presence of the EU of great Chinese players have now thrown a projector on the techno-authoritarian trends in Beijing.
Earlier this year, six Chinese companies (Aliexpress, Shein, Temu, Wechat and Xiaomi as well as Tiktok) were the target of complaints filed with European data protection authorities by the Austrian group Noyb, founded by the private life activist Max Schrems.
The third fine of all time for a violation of the EU data protection rules book, Friday’s decision by the Ireland data protection commission underlines that Chinese laws are fundamentally in contradiction with European data protection principles.
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