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How TikTok, AliExpress & WeChat ignore your GDPR rights

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Jul 17, 2025 Source

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Data Subject Rights Today, noyb has filed GDPR complaints against AliExpress, TikTok and WeChat. All three tech companies have failed to comply with access requests under Article 15 GDPR. This makes it impossible for European users to exercise their fundamental right to privacy, to find out how their personal data is being processed – and if the companies actually comply with other GDPR provisions, for example regarding data transfers. EU law usually allows users to get a full copy of their data. Complaint against TikTok (EN)Complaint against TikTok (EL)Complaint against AliExpress (EN)Complaint against AliExpress (FR)Complaint against WeChat (EN)Complaint against WeChat (NL)Chinese Apps are even worse than US Providers. Most major tech companies have by now implemented some sort of automation tool that allows them to fulfil GDPR access requests on a mass scale, usually via a “download your information” tool. Theoretically, this would make it extremely easy for them to comply with EU l

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