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TikTok on defense after report on foreign access of US user data

TikTok on defense after report on foreign access of US user data


TikTok on defense after report on foreign access of US user data

Nine Republican senators issued a letter to TikTok in response to the BuzzFeed report. And on Wednesday, a Republican member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) urged the chief executives of Apple and Google to kick TikTok out of its app stores.

TikTok had announced last month it had completed migrating information on its US users to servers at Oracle but it was still using US and Singapore data centers for backup.

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