TikTok Whistleblower Tells Congress Data Protections Don't Stop Chinese Access
“Anyone who left the company in February of 2022 would have no knowledge of the current status of Project Texas and the many significant milestones the initiative has reached over the last year in our efforts to further safeguard our community and our platform in the United States,” the TikTok spokesperson said in an email.
The spokesperson said Project Texas was, in fact, a full re-engineering of the app. Additionally, the spokesperson said most of the employees who had knowledge of Project Texas’ components during the time of the whistleblower’s employment did not have full access to the entirety of the project.The whistleblower, meanwhile reportedly did not advocate for an outright nationwide ban.
. TikTok has previously rejected lawmakers’ most sensational national security allegations related to Chinese surveillance which still lacks much concrete evidence.comes in. As part of that proposal, TikTok says it would silo its U.S. operation into a subsidiary called TikTok U.S. Data Security whose leadership would require U.S. government approval. Under project Texas, TikTok says all U.S. user data and critical code would move to Oracle’s cloud infrastructure.
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