(San Francisco) TikTok, which belongs to the Chinese group Bytedance, will now store all data on its American users on servers of the Oracle group, in the United States, a subject which has long been the subject of tension with the former President Donald Trump.
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“Today, 100% of US user data passes through Oracle Cloud infrastructure,” the app said in a statement Friday.
The very popular social network already stored this data in the United States, on its server in Virginia, and also in Singapore. These data centers will be used for emergency backups.
“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 US user data,” said Albert Calamug, head of US public affairs at TikTok.
In the summer of 2020, Donald Trump had tried, via various decrees, to prohibit the application. He accused him of collecting confidential data and serving in Beijing for espionage, because Chinese law requires companies in the country to share their data if the government asks them.
But TikTok, an international application separate from the Chinese version (Douyin), kept repeating that the information collected, stored in Singapore and the United States, was in no way shared with the Chinese administration.
In June 2021, President Joe Biden announced the revocation of executive orders issued by his predecessor to ban TikTok and other services owned by Chinese companies.
He also asked his administration to investigate to determine the real risks posed by internet applications owned by certain foreign powers.