![]() to want to protect its citizens’ data from foreign spies. But even so, it’s reasonable for the U.S. ![]() intelligence can apply just as much pressure to Meta and Twitter as the Chinese Communist Party can apply to TikTok-as if to drive that point home, Austria’s data protection authority just ruled that European websites can’t legally use Facebook’s tracking technology because the resulting data would be susceptible to mass surveillance by U.S. ![]() I’ve written before that this whole debate is riddled with hypocrisy, because U.S. user data and systems, with robust third-party monitoring, vetting, and verification, which we are already implementing.” The best way to address concerns about national security is with the transparent, U.S.-based protection of U.S. Here’s TikTok spokeswoman Maureen Shanahan, responding to the new CFIUS reports: “If protecting national security is the objective, divestment doesn’t solve the problem: A change in ownership would not impose any new restrictions on data flows or access. data access and content moderation, and its board would report to CFIUS. Data Security, which TikTok proposes should be controlled by the U.S. The firm’s European data centers are also operated by third parties, but Project Texas has gone a step further by setting up a new subsidiary called TikTok U.S. In the U.S., Oracle Cloud already hosts TikTok’s local data. Both schemes are supposed to demonstrate that TikTok is protecting Western data and minds from China’s spies and propagandists. TikTok’s defense rests on Project Texas, its $1.5 billion program for getting on the right side of the American authorities-the European version is called Project Clover. But whether out in the open or not, something is finally happening. CFIUS has been investigating TikTok’s national security implications for years, and its failure to reach a conclusion has led to lawmakers trying to ban the ByteDance-owned app through legislative means. Frustratingly, the Treasury-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S.
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