US officials recently warned the business that TikTok would be outlawed in the US if ByteDance doesn’t cut its ties to the business. And lawmakers from both parties have backed legislation that would give President Joe Biden and other members of his administration the authority to outlaw the app.
Chew’s written testimony mostly reiterates points TikTok has made in discussions for years. He discusses Project Texas, TikTok’s $1 billion endeavour to secure the data of US users, as well as the app’s safety measures, notably those targeted at teenagers. We started the process of erasing past protected U.S. user data kept on non-Oracle systems earlier this month, and we anticipate finishing it later this year, according to Chew. The Chinese government cannot access it or force access to it under this framework.
