Oracle gets to store US users' TikTok data, says Trump
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Speaking to reporters last night, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also said that Oracle would protect the data from surveillance or interference by foreign adversaries.
Meanwhile, TikTok's algorithm would be retrained and operated in the United States, she said.
"Tiktok will be owned by a majority of American investors and controlled by a board of directors with extensive national security and cybersecurity credentials. In partnership with the US government, Oracle will serve as Tiktok trusted security provider, and they will independently monitor the safety and data security of all US user data on Tiktok platform. Americans' data will be stored securely in the United States without access from China. All US user data will be stored on servers operated by Oracle in the United States, protected from surveillance or interference by foreign adversaries," she said.
The deal for Tiktok ownership will likely extend a relationship with Oracle which has seen Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) hosting all traffic to the social network from within the USA.
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In June 2022, a [3]statement from TikTok said, "For more than a year, we've been working with Oracle on several measures as part of our commercial relationship to better safeguard our app, systems, and the security of US user data. We still use our US and Singapore datacenters for backup, but as we continue our work we expect to delete US users' private data from our own datacenters and fully pivot to Oracle cloud servers located in the US."
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[8]On Sunday , US President Donald Trump told Fox News that PC manufacturing pioneer Michael Dell would likely be involved and that Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison was one of a group bidding to acquire TikTok USA. The US press secretary confirmed the USA and China have finalized a deal to sell the app and that the deal will see the app's famously addictive algorithm held by American interests.
In yesterday's press briefing, Leavitt would not disclose the value of the agreement but promised businesses using Tiktok would generate as much as $178 billion in economic activity within the US over the next four years.
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She said Tiktok would remain globally interoperable, and allow Tiktok users in the US to see videos posted by users in other countries and vice versa. ®
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[1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/02/oracle_breach_disaster_planning/
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[3] https://newsroom.tiktok.com/delivering-on-our-us-data-governance?lang=en
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/30/infosec_news_in_brief/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/08/oracle_cloud_compromised/
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Oracle & Dell are licking their chops to get their hands on Tik Tok and become an instant dominant player in social media along with X and Meta. What could go wrong?
Interesting that they mention the algorithm is going to be retrained. Elon Musk's amplify the right-wing style no doubt.
hilarious
Going to be a riot when (not if) this all falls apart. China already said they'd rather shut it down then let others access to the algorithm and data.
Such fools they are saying all this stuff confident that China will accept when there has been zero evidence that they inched closer to agreement especially considering the ongoing trade war and TACO trump. They also announced a trade deal with China a couple of months ago? Obviously still not signed yet and recently Trump was threatening high tariffs again unless China starts allowing us to buy magnets.
Tiktok was supposed to be banned what 8 months ago?
If its going to be globally operable as they claim so that US and ROW can still share videos. If a Tiktok user in the USA comments on a video posted by someone say in Germany then surely that data is going to be know by both the servers in the Oracle US data centre and the other in Bytedances outside the US? Thus completely defeating the whole point of making Bytedance sell Tiktok to protect US national security and American Tiktok users. So why are they doing this again other than Trump hopes it will perhaps win over young voters?
Uncle Larry
Here comes Uncle Larry's thumb on free speech.
Lets have it both ways
>> Oracle would protect the data from surveillance or interference by foreign adversaries.
The world needs to protect its data from surveillance or interference by the American regime. Let's not forget that the American regime has declared economic war on Canada. The USA is the adversary.