A draft agreement with a federal agency to avoid a ban would have given US agencies unprecedented access to TikTok's facilities and servers.
the draft agreement, dated Summer 2022, would have given the US government agencies like the Department of Justice and Department of Defense far more access to TikTok’s operations than that of any other social media company. Th
e agreement would let agencies examine TikTok’s US facilities, records, and servers with minimal prior notice and veto the hiring of any executive involved with leading TikTok US data security organization. It would also let US agencies block changes to the app’s terms of service in the US and order the company to subject itself to various audits, all on TikTok’s dime, per Forbes.
In extreme cases, the agreement would allow government organizations to demand TikTok temporarily shut off functioning in the US.CFIUS did not immediately respond to Gizmodo’s request for comment. TikTok would not confir“As has been widely reported, we’ve been working with CFIUS for well over a year to implement a national security agreement and have invested significant resources in implementing a firewall to isolate U.S. user data,” a TikTok spokesperson said. “Today, all new protected U.S.
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