TikTok’s troubles in U.S.
The HinduTikTok may be out of India, but the service has not stopped growing. The Trump administration expressed national security concerns over the viral social media app due to its Chinese ownership. Separately, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee chair and top Republican have called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate social media app TikTok and Chinese parent ByteDance due to "repeated misrepresentations" over its handling of U.S. data. In a separate statement, TikTok has said it is currently undertaking a major initiative intended to “fully safeguard user data and U.S. national security interests.” The company said it’s now storing all U.S. data by default in Oracle’s cloud, reiterating comments made in a recent blog post. “Our solution with Oracle will ensure that training of the TikTok algorithm only occurs in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and will also ensure appropriate third-party security vetting and validation of the algorithm,” TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew wrote in the memo, according to a report by CNBC.