TikTok moves to ease fears amid report workers in China accessed US users’ data

The company has said that Oracle will store all private information and is limiting the number of employees with those privileges

TikTok has said that Oracle will store all the data from its US users, in a bid to allay fears about its safety in the hands of a platform owned by the Chinese company ByteDance.

The move comes as a report from BuzzFeed news, citing leaked audio from TikTok in-house meetings, said ByteDance employees in China have repeatedly accessed private information about US TikTok users.

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