TikTok CEO Testifies Company Still Storing Some US User Data Overseas, Raising Security Fears

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TikTok is still storing Americansโ€™ data on overseas servers, potentially placing it at risk of being accessed and exploited by Chinaโ€™s communist regime.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified on the matter during a March 23 hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the subject of TikTokโ€™s data privacy practices and ties to China.

โ€œToday, there is still some data that we need to delete [from overseas servers],โ€ Chew said.

โ€œI believe we will be able to get it done this year.โ€

The issue of TikTokโ€™s data practices largely stems from concern about its links to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) through parent company ByteDance, a Beijing-based tech giant.

ByteDance is subject to CCP laws that require all data controlled by Chinese companies to be surrendered to the regime upon request. ByteDance also maintains a CCP committee as part of its corporate structure, which is also required by Chinese law.

Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) said that TikTokโ€™s ties to the CCP through ByteDance were an unacceptable national security risk, and that TikTok could be used to conduct influence operations or espionage for the regime.

โ€œCCP laws require Chinese companies like ByteDance to spy on their behalf,โ€ Rodgers said. โ€œThat means any Chinese company must grant the CCP access and manipulation capabilities as a design feature.โ€

โ€œTikTok surveils us all and the Chinese Communist Party is able to use this as a tool to manipulate America as a whole. We do not trust TikTok will ever embrace American values.โ€

TikTok Claims New Project will Secure US Data

For its part, TikTok has proposed to undertake an initiative called โ€œProject Texas,โ€ in which it will store all of its U.S. user data on Oracle-based cloud infrastructure in the United States.

Chew described the effort as โ€œAmerican data stored on American soil by an American company and overseen by American personnel.โ€

โ€œThe company plans to begin the process of deleting non-public historical U.S. user data this month and anticipates that the process will be completed this year,โ€ Chew said.

Byย Andrew Thornebrooke

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