TikTok said it has completed migrating information on its U.S. users to servers at Oracle Corp, in a move that could address U.S. regulatory concerns over data integrity on the popular short video app.
The move, which was first reported by Reuters, comes nearly two years after a U.S. national security panel ordered parent company ByteDance to divest TikTok because of fears that U.S. user data could be passed on to China’s communist government.
TikTok is one of the world’s most popular social media apps, with more than 1 billion active users globally, and counts the U.S. as its largest market.
The United States has been increasingly scrutinizing app developers over the personal data they handle, especially if some of it involves U.S. military or intelligence personnel.
The order to sell off TikTok was not enforced after Joe Biden succeeded Donald Trump as U.S. president last year.
The panel, known as the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), however, has continued to harbor concerns over data security at TikTok that ByteDance is now hoping to address, Reuters previously reported.
The White House had no immediate comment while the U.S. Treasury declined to comment.
In March, Reuters reported that TikTok was nearing a deal for Oracle Corp to store its U.S. users’ information.
Oracle had discussed acquiring a minority stake in TikTok in 2020, when ByteDance was under U.S. pressure to sell the app. The cloud computing giant now stores all of TikTok’s U.S. user data on Oracle data servers in the United States under the new partnership, TikTok said.
Oracle declined to comment.
