TikTok said it has made changes to its storage of Americans’ data following new allegations that the platform’s China-based parent company accessed U.S. users’ data.
Engineers in China had access to U.S. data between September 2021 and January 2022, according to leaked audio from more than 80 internal TikTok meetings obtained by Buzzfeed.
Albert Calamug, TikTok U.S. security public policy official, wrote on the company’s blog that TikTok is partnering with the American tech company Oracle to create data management protocols that Oracle will audit.
“We’ve changed the default storage location of U.S. user data,” Mr.