While Erich Andersen, head of global legal affairs at ByteDance (TikTok’s parent company), is touring Europe, he plans to stop by France. In particular, he will meet with Roch-Olivier Maistre, president of the Audiovisual and Digital Communications Regulatory Authority (Arcom), this Monday, March 13. according to our colleagues figaro.
Arcom has TikTok in its sights, especially since the presentation of the platform’s first report on the fight against disinformation last November. The audiovisual policeman had regretted the poor quality of the information provided.
Before this interview, Erich Andersen also has an appointment on March 10 with Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister Delegate for Digital, from whom he will demand “the company’s roadmap and commitments”, as well as a “precise operational calendar”. , the measures adopted to protect the data. of its users, the ministry said.
Erich Andersen has just finished his hooks around London and Brussels. In difficulties in Europe, TikTok wants to convince politicians. In fact, the European Commission, as well as the European Parliament and the Council of the EU have recently demanded the removal of the social network on employees’ professional smartphones.
TikTok forced to act
Faced with so many setbacks, TikTok decided to act. The platform presented its “Clover Project” on March 8 in Brussels, a set of measures that aims to improve security personal data of its European users.
This involves, in particular, the construction of two new data centers, in Ireland and Norway. They join the first European data center opened by the group last year, in Ireland. All this represents a total annual investment of 1,200 million euros for the Chinese company. Beyond data centers, the company also says it wants to do a security audit.
Source: BFM TV
