TikTok says its American traffic is going through Oracle servers, but it retains backups.
TikTok, a Chinese-owned video app, will convince the U.S. government not to release all data created by U.S. users on Friday via a server managed by Silicon Valley company Oracle. He said he was moving. Personal information of Americans to the Chinese government.
However, TikTok added that these tasks can be complicated as they continue to store their own backups of that information.
The app owned by the Chinese company ByteDance is In a blog post Eventually, a US user was expected to “remove private data from their data center and completely pivot to an Oracle cloud server in the US.” It wasn’t told when that would happen.
Albert Calamug, who works in TikTok’s public policy sector, said: , Said in the post.
Video app announced before BuzzFeed News Published the article Let’s take a closer look at how TikTok employees found it difficult to successfully block data from China. TikTok employees said Chinese engineers had access to US data as recently as this year, according to records obtained by the press.
“As publicly stated, we have invited world-class internal and external security experts to strengthen our data security efforts,” TikTok said in a statement. The company created a unit in May, mainly in the United States, adding that it “provides a higher level of focus and governance” for American data security.
In 2020, President Donald J. Trump ordered ByteDance to sell TikTok because of concerns that it could reveal personal information about Americans to Beijing. The White House was said to have signed a contract to sell part of the app to Oracle and others, but it never happened. The Biden administration has continued to scrutinize TikTok and other opportunities for Chinese companies to manage US data.
A White House spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. A Treasury spokesman, a member of a committee scrutinizing foreign investment in the United States, declined to comment. Oracle also declined to comment.
