Today, we welcomed Ireland's Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Digital and Company Regulation, Dara Calleary, to officially open our new Dublin Transparency and Accountability Centre (DUBTAC). This centre in Europe joins similar centres already established in Los Angeles, Washington DC and Singapore.

Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Digital and Company Regulation, Dara 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.”

Now located in The Sorting Office, which will soon be home to TikTok's entire Ireland-based workforce, DUBTAC offers an opportunity for academics, businesses, policymakers, politicians, regulators, researchers and many other expert audiences from around the world to see first-hand how teams at TikTok go about the critically important work of securing our community's safety, data, and privacy.

Through direct observation of our practices, visitors will have an opportunity to learn about our moderation systems, processes, and policies. This includes exploring:

  • How we use technology to keep our community safe
  • How our moderation teams make decisions about content based on the policies in our Community Guidelines
  • The way human reviewers supplement our moderation efforts using technology to help catch potential violations of our rules

As well as an overview of safety and privacy features on the platform, DUBTAC visitors can also learn more about how our recommendation technology works and the key components that may shape an individual user's personalised For You feed.

As an additional part of this space, we provide detail into the work we are doing to strengthen data security for our global TikTok community. For Europe, this includes insights into our Clover programme, a €12 billion investment over the next 10 years that provides enhanced protections for our European users' data, with an unprecedented level of independent oversight from the respected third party cyber-security company, NCC Group.

TikTok has already had extensive security protocols in place prior to our Clover programme. Clover builds further on these with security gateways that control access to data stored in our European enclave. The enclave is a designated secure environment where UK/EEA user data is being stored on an interim basis as we scale up our European data centre operations. These additional protections are independently verified and overseen by the NCC Group.

Speaking at the official opening, Elaine Fox, Head of Ireland for TikTok remarked: "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 1bn people globally that come to it every month."

For more information, insights and reports on how we are fostering greater understanding of the work we do to protect our global TikTok community, visit our Transparency Center.