TikTok US traffic defaults to Oracle Cloud, but Beijing can (allegedly) still have a look

The US arm of Chinese social video app TikTok has revealed that it has changed the default location used to store users' creations to Oracle Cloud's stateside operations - a day after being accused of allowing its Chinese parent company to access American users' personal data. "Today, 100 percent of US user traffic is being routed to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure," the company stated in a post dated June 18. "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," the post continues. "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.". Indeed it's not apparent that it's entirely possible - the post also states that TikTok continues to operate its own datacenters in the US and Singapore "To guard against catastrophic scenarios where user data could be lost." The Singapore facility serves as the backup data storage location for US users. Oracle expressed an interest in buying TikTok's US operations. Trump didn't press the matter in the chaotic final months of his presidency, during which TikTok sought injunctions against its ban and started working to separate its US and Chinese operations to satisfy American authorities that stateside users' data could not be accessed in China.