TikTok will \u201csoon\u201d grant Oracle Corp. full access to its source code, algorithm and content-moderation material as part of efforts to alleviate national security concerns about the app.<\/p>\n
Oracle will also begin monitoring the controlled gateways where data comes in and out of the secure environment it set up on servers to host data from TikTok\u2019s US users, according to a statement from the social media company on Monday.<\/p>\n
The work is part of TikTok\u2019s Project Texas, a plan to cordon off US users\u2019 data and allow its technology to be reviewed by partners like Oracle to assess security risks.<\/p>\n
The social media company introduced the plan to alleviate criticism from policymakers who worry that its ownership by a Chinese tech company, ByteDance Ltd., opens the door to influence or data collection by the Chinese government.<\/p>\n
TikTok is currently facing federal- and state-level legislation that aims to ban or limit the app\u2019s use in America on national security grounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany of the major components of Project Texas are already operational, and we will continue bringing more parts of the initiative online in the coming weeks and months,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n
Oracle started inspecting portions of TikTok\u2019s source code in the so-called Dedicated Transparency Center, which went live in January.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth TikTok and Oracle are continuing to work towards a solution with the US government,\u201d TikTok said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur teams have been working together on all TikTok software that Oracle will ultimately inspect and continually monitor while ensuring US users have an uninterrupted experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Oracle didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
TikTok provided details on the arrangement after Bloomberg\u00a0reported<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0last week that Oracle had yet to embark on the most-involved elements of the program \u2014 intensive code reviews and app store updates \u2014 and won\u2019t do so until the US government says the arrangement is sufficient.<\/p>\n The Information\u00a0added on Monday<\/a><\/strong> that Oracle employees only had limited access to TikTok\u2019s source code and aren\u2019t comprehensively reviewing its software, algorithm or content-moderation methods.<\/p>\n The work is part of TikTok\u2019s Project Texas, a plan to cordon off US users\u2019 data and allow its technology to be reviewed by partners like Oracle to assess security risks.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":469917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,27],"tags":[46251,3372,75628,86543,85343,59100,84281,54329],"class_list":["post-492741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-security","tag-bytedance","tag-oracle","tag-oracle-cloud","tag-project-texas","tag-the-information","tag-tiktok","tag-tiktok-ban","tag-us-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: Best VPNs for home users<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"