Irish Legal News: TikTok opens ‘transparency and accountability centre’ in Dublin

TikTok opens ‘transparency and accountability centre’ in Dublin




TikTok opens 'transparency and accountability centre' in DublinPictured: Dara Calleary and Elaine Fox opening TikTok’s new Dublin Transparency and Accountability Centre.


TikTok has opened a new “transparency and accountability centre” in Dublin which experts can visit to see how it works to protect users online. Dara Calleary, minister of state for trade promotion, digital and company regulation, joined TikTok yesterday to officially open the new centre, which joins similar centres already established in Los Angeles, Washington DC and Singapore.

Commenting, Mr Calleary said: “The new transparency and accountability centre will undertake another important area of work for TikTok aligning with both the trust and safety and privacy hubs.“You have had an amazing expansion over the last four years, and it is truly impressive how rapidly your Irish operations have expanded. I have no doubt the skilled team at TikTok will ensure the new transparency and accountability centre is a huge success.

”Elaine Fox, a solicitor recently appointed as head of Ireland for TikTok, added: “It’s fitting to open this space in Dublin as it really is a showcase of the work many of our highly skilled teams here do across the areas of data security, privacy and trust and safety.“We look forward to welcoming guests from Europe and around the world, and offering them insights into how we safeguard our platform and the one billion people globally that come to it every month.”


The centre, known as DUBTAC for short, is located in The Sorting Office, which will soon be home to TikTok’s entire Ireland-based workforce. Academics, businesses, policymakers, politicians, regulators, researchers and other experts will be able to come to DUBTAC to see how TikTok secures its users’ safety, data and privacy, as well as learning about its recommendation technology and its work to protect European users’ data.

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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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