TikTok's National Security Saga Nears Its End

TikTok's national security clash with the U.S. government may be nearing its conclusion, without the sort of shareholder overhaul that was previously proposed. From a report: The social media company is in advanced talks with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to store all of its U.S. user information with Oracle, without Chinese owner ByteDance being able to access it, as first reported by Reuters and confirmed by Axios. Data sovereignty has been the core regulatory concern since this all began in mid-2020, at least for career staff. Certain political appointees of the Trump administration also expressed fears that the Chinese government could use TikTok to influence U.S. political or social sentiment, but content moderation seems outside the scope of current talks.

Re: Content Moderation (this was a tasteless joke)

[saloomy]

Oracle is benefitting. I should have placed a bet.

I want our enemies to see our TikToks

[Micah NC]

This is not going to give them the advantage they are looking for.

Another chapter in the "race to the bottom" series ...

Re:

[arglebargle_xiv]

Naah, it'll be fine, no-one, not even Oracle support personnell when you call them, can retrieve things from Oracle data stores, so it's perfectly safe there.

Re:

[Micah NC]

LOL ...

It's About Time!

[organgtool]

I feel a lot better knowing that our national security is preserved and those wily Chinese won't be able to harvest our sick dance moves and immature challenges.

Oracle?

[hawk]

Oracle?

Really?

Aren't they positioned somewhere between Putin and the ChiComs on the scale of evil?

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[drinkypoo]

What's important to the government about Oracle is that they're a willing part of civilian spying. As long as the data will be stored with someone willing to turn it over to the feds at the drop of any hat at all, they are happy. Literally everything else about this deal is irrelevant to the government.

So,

[NotEmmanuelGoldstein]

... without Chinese owner ByteDance being able to access ...

The government that demands access to every US-operated web-site in the world wants to make make sure that China can't access China-operated web-sites.