Three firms accused of falling short by noyb.
Austrian privacy advocacy group noyb has filed formal complaints against Chinese tech giants TikTok, AliExpress, and WeChat for violating the GDPR by failing to provide users with full access to their personal data.
According to Cybernews, noyb said these three firms fell short, while many major tech companies have automated systems to meet transparency and data access requirements under Article 15 of the GDPR.
TikTok offered partial data in an unreadable format, AliExpress sent a corrupted file, and WeChat allegedly ignored the request altogether.
Follow-up attempts by complainants were met with generic privacy policies rather than substantive data disclosures. Noyb also included Shein, Temu, and Xiaomi in a broader complaint series, though those firms responded with more detailed user data.
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
