The US arm of Chinese social video app TikTok has revealed that it has changed the default location used to store users’ creations to Oracle Cloud’s stateside operations – a day after being accused of allowing its Chinese parent company to access American users’ personal data.
“Today, 100 percent of US user traffic is being routed to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure,” the company stated in a post dated June 18.
“For more than a year, we’ve been working with Oracle on several measures as part of our commercial relationship to better safeguard our app, systems, and the security of US user data,” the post continues. “We still use our US and Singapore datacenters for backup, but as we continue our work we expect to delete US users’ private data from our own datacenters and fully pivot to Oracle cloud servers located in the US.”
We know we are among the most scrutinized platforms from a security standpoint.
No timeframe has been offered for the move to Oracle to be complete. Indeed it’s not…
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