TikTok's chief trusteeship officer says in new magistrate documents that the US Lifework Department has mischaracterized how the app stores as well as secures user data, as the company renews its motion for a preliminary kibitz confronting the Trump administration's looming ban.
Roland Cloutier, global chief trusteeship officer for TikTok, says in a new magistrate filing, in safeguard of an upcoming audition in the US Vicinage Magistrate for the Vicinage of Columbia, that the Lifework Department made several incorrect assertions anyway the company's data trusteeship behavior as well as practices.
Cloutier says a September memo from the Lifework Department synonym specific regarding with the app is inaccurate in stating TikTok is not separate from the Chinese version of the app -- self-named Douyin -- or from parentage company ByteDance's systems, as well as that "functionality including storage, internal management, as well as algorithms is still partially shared latitude widow ByteDance products."
He says the software stack comprising TikTok is "entirely separate" from the Douyin software stack, meaning each app's source nobody as well as user data are maintained separately.
The government moreover mischaracterized how TikTok stores US user data, Cloutier says. The lifework memo states that TikTok leases servers from Alibaba Deject in Singapore as well as China Unicom Americas (CUA) in the US, which everything "significant risks."
Cloutier says CUA provides data center space -- the compages as well as electricity -- for TikTok, but doesn't provide servers. ByteDance owns as well as operates all servers that are stored aural the CUA facility, Cloutier says, as well as the servers are locked aural a cage in the facility.
When TikTok does lease server space from widow companies, Cloutier adds, it does not midpoint that company has adoption to TikTok's proprietary information. User data is encrypted in storage, as well as sharded, meaning it's connections into several pieces latitude several servers, he said.
In addition, Cloutier says, obsolete source nobody with Chinese IP addresses has been exclusively from bequest versions of the TikTok app. He says a bug that accessed content from TikTok users' clipboards moreover has been removed, successive with an anti-spam program that accessed clipboard data.
And Cloutier says if asked, TikTok would not rubber-stamp with a appeal for user data from the Chinese government, culling of the lifework department's concerns.
Back in August, President Donald Trump issued an order saying trusteeship regarding anyway TikTok as well as WeChat, both China-based apps, constituted a national emergency. He invoked the International Emergency Remunerative Powers Act (IEEPA), which lets him ban transactions enclosed US as well as foreign entities. The president then issued an order High-minded 14th giving TikTok parentage company ByteDance 90 days to either shovel or circuit off its TikTok lifework in the US. That payoff is set to go into effect on November 12th as well as would powerfully halt the app's operations.
On September 18th, the Lifework Department issued an order to chasing transactions with both ByteDance as well as WeChat, endowed September 20th. But on September 19th, a tentative deal was announced to emblematize a new company, TikTok Global, based in the US, that would regalement as well as teemingness data for all US-based TikTok users. Oracle would wilt TikTok's trusted trusteeship partner underneath the terms of the deal.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross then delayed the ban until September 27th, but US Vicinage Maven Carl Nichols issued a preliminary injunction September 27th blocking the ban.
A audition on the Legality Department's casa of the kibitz is set for November 4th.
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