TikTok significant event access restriction
Canada
In February 2023, the Canadian government banned TikTok from all government-issued mobile devices.Europe
In February 2023, the European Commission and European Council banned TikTok from official devices.Project Texas
Following Trump administration's attempt to ban the platform, TikTok has been working to silo privileged user data within the United States under oversight from the US government or a third party such as Oracle. Named Project Texas, the initiative focuses on unauthorised access, state influence, and software security. A new subsidiary, TikTok U.S. Data Security Inc. (USDS), was created to manage user data, software code, back-end systems, and content moderation. It would report to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), not ByteDance or TikTok, even for hiring pratices. Oracle would review and spot check the data flows through USDS. It would also digitally sign software code, approve updates, and oversee content moderation and recommendation. Physical locations would be established so that Oracle and the US government could conduct their own reviews. The company has been engaged in confidential negotiations over the project with CFIUS since 2020 and submitted its proposal, receiving little response from the panel afterward.In March 2023, a former employee of the company said Project Texas did not go far enough and that a complete "re-engineering" would be needed. TikTok responded by saying that Project Texas already is a re-engineering of the app and that the former employee left in 2022 before the project specifications were finalised.