Private information from TikTok users in the United States may have been accessed in China, according to a report Friday.
The revelations add credence to fears that China can access the nonpublic information of U.S. citizens despite denials from TikTok. The popular social media app's parent company, ByteDance, is headquartered in Beijing, and the Chinese government owns a stake in its domestic unit.Recordings reviewed and reported by Buzzfeed consisted of statements from TikTok employees across 80 internal meetings that suggested engineers in China had access to U.S.
All U.S. user data is being transferred to the cloud servers run by Oracle, with data centers in Virginia and Singapore used as backups, the company announced in a Friday blog post.
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