According to Forbes, TikTok previously made guarantees to US officials and politicians in an attempt to allay their fears that China might use the app against US individuals. TikTok said in June that it has “moved the default storage location of US user data” to “Oracle cloud servers based in the United States.” The news came just as BuzzFeed News released a piece regarding ByteDance personnel in China routinely accessing nonpublic data on TikTok users in the United States. That story was based on hours of internal discussions released to the press.
