TikTok, which belongs to the Chinese group Bytedance, will store all data on its American users on Oracle servers in the United States. In the summer of 2020, former US President Donald Trump tried to ban the popular app.
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The announcement about the Oracle contract appeared on Friday, the same day as a Buzzfeed article claiming that Bytedance employees had repeatedly accessed non-public data about US users of the social network. TikTok explained that only its engineers were able to gain access, not the Chinese government.
During his last year in office, former US President Donald Trump regularly accused the platform of harvesting confidential data and serving Beijing for espionage, as Chinese law requires companies in the country to share their data if the government asks them.
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But TikTok indicates that it has never received such a request and assures that it would not have responded to it. The application further specifies that it is working to restrict this access, even for its engineers, outside the country concerned.
The very popular social network has until now stored this data in the United States, on its server in Virginia, and also in Singapore. She will gradually stop using it.
“We know that we are one of the platforms closely watched in terms of security, and we want to eliminate all doubts about the security of American user data,” said the head of American public affairs of TikTok, quoted in the press release.
In June 2021, US President Joe Biden announced the revocation of executive orders issued by his predecessor in the White House to ban TikTok and other services owned by Chinese companies.
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