United Kingdom, May 5 -- TikTok has been fined €530 million after sending the personal data of European users to China illegally.

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) said that the social media giant had breached the European Union's (EU) data protection rules when it sent European user data to China as it couldn't guarantee that the information was protected under the nation's surveillance laws.

The privacy regulator said that TikTok had failed to adequately assess the implications of Chinese surveillance laws on the data of European users.

The regulations give the Chinese government the power to order companies to hand over data and TikTok accepted that they "materially diverge from EU standards".

The regulator also said...