US EditionPopular Chinese Apps Under Scrutiny for Alleged Personal Data Theft, Following Privacy Group Complaint
BELGIUM, GREECE, NETHERLANDS, JUL 17 – Noyb alleges TikTok, AliExpress, and WeChat obstructed user data access under GDPR, urging EU authorities to investigate with over 6,680 fines issued since 2018.
- On July 17, 2025, noyb filed formal complaints with DPAs in Belgium, Greece and the Netherlands targeting AliExpress, TikTok, and WeChat.
- After months of inadequate responses to data access requests submitted earlier in 2025, European users were left unable to verify how their personal information was processed.
- Specifically, AliExpress provided a broken file accessible only once, WeChat ignored requests for six months and TikTok delivered raw, unstructured data.
- Noyb requested DPAs to declare GDPR breaches and order platforms to fulfill access requests, and suggested administrative fines as deterrence.
- These filings seek to pressure regulators into closing enforcement gaps, noting fines can reach up to €147 million for AliExpress.
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Popular Chinese apps under scrutiny for alleged personal data theft, following privacy group complaint
The issues surrounding popular Chinese apps like TikTok, WeChat, and AliExpress are expected to escalate. These apps face serious allegations of user data theft. The Austrian Advocacy Privacy Group has lodged complaints against them with the European Union, highlighting their failure to comply with EU privacy standards, which puts them at risk of being banned. As per EU regulations, users should have the ability to download their own data. Priva…
Data protection agents have filed a complaint against Chinese Internet companies in several EU countries.
New complaints were filed on Thursday in European countries against three Chinese applications, including TikTok, accused of failing to respond to requests about the processing of their users' data.
Chinese companies TikTok, AliExpress and WeChat will face complaints for failing to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union (EU).The accusations have been filed by the Austrian NGO specializing in privacy protection Noyb and notified to the authorities of Belgium, Greece and the Netherlands.These new claims come in full controversy due to various warnings from the European Commission to multiple Chinese pl…
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