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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TikTok Is Struggling to Wall-Off U.S. User Data

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In an effort to assure American lawmakers, social media platform TikTok promised to start keeping data from U.S. users separate from the company’s China-based parent, ByteDance. The stand-alone unit that oversees American data is code-named Project Texas. But we exclusively report that so far, TikTok has struggled to fulfill those promises. WSJ tech reporter Georgia Wells joins host Alex Ossola to talk about Project Texas, and what its success means for TikTok’s future in the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to tech News Briefing. It's Wednesday January 31st. I'm Alex Osala for the Wall Street Journal. Coming up on today's show, Social Media company Tik-Tok promised to wall off American user data from its China-based parent company.

0:38.0

But that wall seems to have some holes in it.

0:40.0

We'll hear from W.S.J. Tech reporter Georgia Wells about what that could mean for

0:44.6

Tik-Tok's future in the US. And then, Amazon has long dominated e-commerce and

0:50.1

cloud computing. Now, as investors are eyeing profit expansion, the company faces new rivals

0:56.0

that could cut into its bottom line. W.S.J. Heard on the Street columnist Dan Gallagher tells us

1:01.8

what Amazon is doing to try to stay on top.

1:05.0

But first, social media platform Tik-Toc has promised to start keeping data from U.S. users separate from the company's China-based parent by Dance.

1:15.8

The effort, called Project Texas, was intended to assure American lawmakers that the

1:19.9

Chinese government couldn't interfere with the content that the algorithm delivers.

1:24.2

But in an exclusive report, we show that so far, Tik-Toc has struggled to fulfill those promises.

1:29.8

W.S.J. Tech reporter, Georgia,

1:34.3

tell us more about how Project Texas was supposed to work and how its

1:37.2

intended mission has been going.

1:38.8

So Project Texas was designed to wall off American data so that American data would be in the US in this special

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