
What is Project Texas?
Project Texas is an unprecedented initiative dedicated to making every American on TikTok feel safe, with confidence that their data is secure and the platform is free from outside influence.…
Project Texas is an unprecedented initiative dedicated to making every American on TikTok feel safe, with confidence that their data is secure and the platform is free from outside influence.…
As part of Project Texas, we created a standalone entity called TikTok U.S. Data Security Inc. (USDS). USDS is an separate company tasked with managing all business functions that require…
Today, many of the major components of Project Texas are already operational: USDS has been incorporated, and as of March 23, 2023, over 1,400 people have been moved into this…
USDS currently has more than 1,400 full-time employees, and we expect that number to continue to grow. It includes all functions required to run any aspect of the U.S. version…
As of June 2022, 100% of all U.S. user traffic is routed to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in the United States, and today all access to that environment is managed…
Today, only vetted employees of TikTok USDS have access to new U.S. user data, with limited exceptions for things like business metrics or data needed to respond to an emergency…
There have been many inaccurate claims about our policies and practices that have gone unaddressed by the media. To be clear, TikTok does NOT: Log keystrokes; Collect precise GPS location…
In line with industry practices, we collect information that people provide to help the app function, operate securely, and improve the user experience. More details can be found in our…
Yes. Anyone can request access to or deletion of their information through the Contact section at the bottom of our privacy policy.
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance was founded by Chinese entrepreneurs. ByteDance is a privately-held global company, with roughly 60 percent owned by global institutional investors (such as Blackrock, General Atlantic, and…
TikTok has not been asked, nor has it provided any U.S. user data to the Chinese government.
No. As is required under local law, in order to operate certain ByteDance news and information products that are offered exclusively in China, three entities affiliated with the Chinese government…
Project Texas is designed to make this question moot. Once TikTok USDS is fully operational, ByteDance and TikTok will not have access to U.S. user data, and our governance structure…
To guarantee that there is no unauthorized access to our systems—no backdoors or data leakage—every single line of source code that goes into the Oracle environment, whether it comes from…