Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users
radiofreeval@hexbear.net 3 months agoTikTok stores American data via Oracle. They also have servers in Virginia and Singapore.
Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users
radiofreeval@hexbear.net 3 months agoTikTok stores American data via Oracle. They also have servers in Virginia and Singapore.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Sure, you have to store data with some locality so round trip times aren’t horrible. It doesn’t mean anyone has access to it or control over it.
radiofreeval@hexbear.net 3 months ago
Oracle is an American company so they can get searched by the government at will. The government has access to TikTok data around as easily as the PRC does, it’s just a matter of corporations being able to grab a profitable asset & create Anti-China sentiment.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
There’s no way in hell that data isn’t encrypted. That’d be very poor handling of data, and probably illegal in most places, at least the EU. Just because data is on a server doesn’t mean you access it with access to the server. Sure, the videos and stuff are probably raw, but any PII is almost certainly encrypted, or it should be if it isn’t.