Chinese-owned social media web site TikTok informed US senators it was engaged on a remaining settlement with the Biden Administration that may “fully safeguard user data and US national security interests,” in accordance with a letter seen Friday by Reuters.

TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew informed senators in a letter dated Thursday that the quick video app was working with Oracle on “new advanced data security controls that we hope to finalise in the near future.”

Last month, TikTok mentioned it had accomplished migrating info on its US customers to servers at Oracle nevertheless it was nonetheless utilizing US and Singapore information centres for backup.

TikTok’s letter acknowledged that China-based workers “can have access to TikTok US user data subject to a series of robust cybersecurity controls and authorisation approval protocols overseen by our US-based security team.”

TikTok mentioned because it continues to work on information points it expects “to delete US users protected data from our own systems and fully pivot to Oracle cloud servers located in the US.”

A TikTok spokesperson confirmed the corporate despatched a response to the senators’ letter. “We look forward to connecting with Members of congress to discuss the substance of our letter,” the spokesperson mentioned in an announcement to Reuters.

Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn mentioned TikTok “should have come clean from the start but instead tried to shroud their work in secrecy. Americans need to know that if they are on TikTok, Communist China has their information. TikTok needs to come back and testify before Congress.”

The letter comes practically two years after a US nationwide safety panel ordered mother or father firm ByteDance to divest TikTok due to fears that US person information might be handed on to China’s communist authorities.

“We know we are among the most scrutinised platforms from a security standpoint and we aim to remove any doubt about the security of US user data,” the letter mentioned.

TikTok is likely one of the world’s hottest social media apps, with greater than 1 billion lively customers globally, and counts the United States as its largest market.

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