Chinese social media app TikTok is continuing its campaign to convince Western countries that it poses no threat to users’ privacy or online security.
The campaign, sometimes known as Project Four Leaf Clover, is aimed at convincing European regulators that sufficient oversight exists at home to ensure user data is not leaked to the Chinese government.
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A teenager clicks on the TikTok app on a smartphone. (Marijan Murat/Image Alliance via Getty Images)
TikTok is currently building two European data centers — one in Ireland — purportedly to isolate information collected on the continent from Chinese systems. The company has also committed to hiring a third party to oversee its European unit.
Project Clover echoes the U.S.-focused Project Texas, which promises to provide the federal government with some oversight of domestic data collection.
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The price tag for the Texas project proposal alone is more than $1 billion, according to the Observer newspaper.
Under Chinese law, the app’s parent company, ByteDance Ltd., must share its data with the Chinese Communist Party if needed.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders arrive at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing for the second plenary session of the National People’s Congress on March 7, 2023. (GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images)
Because of this obligation, TikTok has been banned Used in state-owned electronic devices in several states across the country as well as at the federal level due to cybersecurity concerns.
On Wednesday, Congress voted to give President Biden the authority to ban TikTok, while TikTok also said that every account held by users under the age of 18 will default to 60 minutes of daily screen time.
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre listens to National Economic Council Director Brian Deese during his daily briefing at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
white house press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that day that the federal government was working on a solution for TikTok, but she would not say whether the social media service would be banned.
