TikTok continues to tout 'Project Texas' as how it will protect U.S. user data, but that hasn't mollified many calling for bans.
,” which is an effort to move all U.S. user data to servers hosted by Oracle. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a multi-agency national security panel, is supposed to investigate how secure U.S. user data actually is, but Bloomberg reported that TikTok’s leadership is concerned that the review process has stalled out.
If protecting national security is the objective, a ban or divestment doesn’t solve the problem, as neither option solves the issues of data access or transfer.”. The app would have to be completely re-engineered in order to stop China from looking in, though the company tried to refute the whistleblower’s claims, saying they left the company before knowing the current state of Project Texas.
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