TikTok is reportedly near finalizing a cope with Oracle that may see the short-form video platform storing its US customers’ information with out offering entry to Chinese dad or mum firm ByteDance. As first reported by Reuters, a devoted group of engineers and cyber safety employees would act as gatekeepers for US customers’ information and would probably not be below TikTok’s supervision.

According to a report by BuzzFeed News, the settlement is understood internally at TikTok as “Project Texas,” a reference to Oracle’s Austin, Texas headquarters. The firm will put in place new controls that prohibit entry to US person information, which it can later recreate in Europe, BuzzFeed reported. But BuzzFeed says it’s nonetheless undecided how a lot entry Chinese managers on the firm should the info and the US-based group.

The stalled settlement, first introduced below former President Trump, was put collectively after Trump ordered what amounted to a ban on TikTok, citing considerations about US customers’ information being made accessible to the Chinese authorities. Oracle was to grow to be a “trusted technology partner” for TikTok within the US. In addition to Trump’s order, the Committee on Foreign Investment within the US (CFIUS) formally ordered dad or mum firm ByteDance to divest itself of operations within the US.

TikTok appealed each orders. A decide dominated in December 2020 that the Trump administration had overstepped its authority below the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and granted TikTok a preliminary injunction. The deal appeared all however useless —reportedly “shelved indefinitely”— after President Biden took workplace.

Reuters reported, citing sources, that Oracle would retailer all of TikTok’s US customers’ information on its servers as a part of the proposed settlement. It’s not clear how such an settlement would have an effect on the prior CFIUS order, nevertheless.

TikTok and Oracle didn’t reply to requests for remark from The Verge.