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TikTok CEO Shaw Tzu Chu and European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager discussed today "aggressive" data collection and surveillance in the United States, the European Commission said today, as quoted by Reuters.

The short-video mobile app, which is owned by Chinese tech conglomerate ByteDance, admitted last month that some of its employees had improperly accessed the TikTok user data of two journalists to identify the source of the information. , leaked to the media. 

For the past three years, the company has been trying to assure Washington that the personal data of American citizens cannot be used and the content cannot be manipulated by the Chinese Communist Party or other organizations under Beijing's influence. 

In the EU, along with other companies, TikTok is facing tough new rules for the technology sector that will come into effect in the next two years.

They will demand that online platforms do more to protect the internet from illegal content.

"The purpose of the meeting with TikTok was to review how the company is preparing to comply with its obligations under European Commission regulations," the EC said in a statement. 

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The meeting also discussed the General Data Protection Regulation, as well as privacy issues and data transfer obligations given recent media reports of aggressive data collection and surveillance in the US, the EC added.

After Vestager, Chu is scheduled to meet with European Commissioner for Values ​​and Transparency Vera Jourova and European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson.

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