TikTok CEO on “Project Texas”

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A bipartisan group of Representatives raised concerns over TikTok’s data and security concerns. Through five hours of testimony TikTok’s CEO denied that the company shares data with China.

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00:00The bottom line is this. American data stored on American soil by an American company overseen

00:07by American personnel. We call this initiative Project Texas. That's why Oracle is headquartered.

00:15Please rename your project. Texas is not the appropriate name. We stand for freedom and

00:19transparency and we don't want your project. Yesterday, bipartisan representatives questioned

00:24the TikTok CEO over security and data concerns. Here's how TikTok CEO,

00:29Shou Chu, described the company's Project Texas plan to move data to the U.S.

00:33We have heard important concerns about the potential for unwanted foreign access to U.S.

00:38data and potential manipulation of the TikTok U.S. ecosystem. Our approach has never been

00:44to dismiss or trivialize any of these concerns. We have addressed them with real action.

00:50Now, that's what we've been doing for the last two years. Building what amounts to a firewall

00:55that seals off protected U.S. user data from unauthorized foreign access.

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