TikTok CEO Testifies Company Still Storing Some US User Data Overseas, Raising Security Fears

TikTok is still storing Americans’ data on overseas servers, potentially placing it at risk of being accessed and exploited by China’s communist regime.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified on the matter during a March 23 hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the subject of TikTok’s data privacy practices and ties to China.
“Today, there is still some data that we need to delete [from overseas servers],” Chew said.
“I believe we will be able to get it done this year.”
The issue of TikTok’s data practices largely stems from concern about its links to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) through parent company ByteDance, a Beijing-based tech giant….}