French Privacy Watchdog Opens Preliminary Investigation Into TikTok

French Privacy Watchdog Opens Preliminary Investigation Into TikTok
TikTok logos are seen on smartphones in front of a displayed ByteDance logo in this illustration taken on Nov. 27, 2019. Dado Ruvic/Reuters
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PARIS—France’s data privacy watchdog CNIL said on Tuesday that it has opened a preliminary investigation into Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok after it received a complaint.

TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, is already under investigation over privacy concerns by U.S., European Union, and Dutch authorities.