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TikTok's effort to wall off U.S. user data only focused on the 'front door' while leaving the back door wide open, former employees say
The allegation further undermines TikTok's insistence that it kept U.S. user data from its parent company.
TikTok’s high-profile push to wall off U.S. user data from its China-based parent, as critics had demanded, failed to cut ties between the two because of its complex computer network structure, says the company’s former lead technical program manager for security engineering. The company ultimately beat back the ban, but continued what’s known as Project Texas, a $1.5 billion effort to store U.S. user data in the U.S. within a secure cloud environment hosted by tech giant Oracle. Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Brendan Carr summarized Fortune’s story, noting that an employee sharing U.S. data in spreadsheets with counterparts at ByteDance in Beijing occurred after TikTok’s Project Texas started.
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