TikTok is building three data centers in Europe

Is called Cloverin Italian “trifoglio”, the new project fielded by TikTok. The Chinese entertainment platform announced the details on March 8, explaining that it will introduce new measures to ensure greater security to the data of the member countries of the European Union, the United Kingdom and Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

Based on theapproach adopted in the United StatesTikTok will tighten current data access controls introducing new security gateways through which employees will be able to access the data of users TikTok of the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom and the latter can be transferred. In fact, any data access will therefore have to go through first through various checks.

The Chinese platform also disclosed that will ensure independent supervision and control naming as a partner a European third party specializing in data security. It will therefore be a separate company to take care of the supervision and audit process on the controls and on the data protectionto monitor the flow of the latter and to provide independent verificationsas well as report on any anomalies. TikTok will also work with other companies to incorporate the latest and most advanced technologies into its approach further strengthen privacy.

All this will be possible because the Chinese platform, complementing the European data center of Dublin already announced last year, it will implement some another in the Irish capital And one in the Hamar region, Norway. The latter will work by the way using 100% renewable energymainly derived from plants hydroelectric locals.

TikTok has already started storing email data in Ireland over 150 million people European who access the platform each month and will continue to do so throughout 2023 and into 2024. Once completed, the three data centers will be able to retain user data thanks to a total annual investment of 1.2 billion euros.

He has been busy working on the Clover project since last year an internal company teamwith the aim not only to make the platform complies with European standards in terms of data security, but of even establish new and more advanced onesminimizing data flows outside of Europe and limiting as much as possible employee access to user information.

“The Clover Project – he claims TikTok Vice President of Government Relations and Public Policy in Europe Theo Bertram – consolidates the commitment we have made for a long time regarding data security in Europe and helps ensure that our European community, with 150 million users, can benefit from a system of data protection and security at the highest levels in the sector”.