Ireland's DPC refers TikTok investigation to EDPB

In the coming months, members of the European Data Protection Board will decide if TikTok violated the EU General Data Protection Regulation by allegedly mishandling children's data, Politico reports. The EDPB took on the investigation after Ireland's Data Protection Commission triggered a dispute resolution mechanism when it "failed to resolve objections raised by other European data protection authorities" while investigating TikTok. The original investigation began in 2021 after European data protection authorities began inquiring if TikTok's age verification protocols were sufficient to keep children under age 13 off the platform.