Todd Alström<p>TikTok is investing 1 billion euros in Finland as part of a 12 billion investment in “data centres and data privacy improvements across Europe over the next decade as part of the Clover project. The centres will store European user data, with oversight from EU authorities, to address concerns about Chinese government access.”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Finland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Finland</span></a> stakeholders were not involved in the plans and surprised by the news.</p><p><a href="https://yle.fi/a/74-20159282" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">yle.fi/a/74-20159282</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TikTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TikTok</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataPrivacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataPrivacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataCenters</span></a></p>