Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok
by falcolas on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @04:49PM
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FWIW, that data is being stored on Oracle servers in the US, with provisions on how it can be accessed as part of some of the agreements reached under Trump.
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But according to leaked audio from more than 80 internal TikTok meetings, China-based employees of ByteDance have repeatedly accessed nonpublic data about US TikTok users [1]
It is irrelevant if the data is stored in the US if Chinese government have tools they can use to search for dissidents, journalists etc
[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-...