By Reuters
Publication Date: 2026-05-29 14:43:00
WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) – Democratic U.S. Senator Ed Markey on Friday formally asked TikTok’s newly formed U.S. joint venture and cloud computing giant Oracle to explain how they protect American users’ personal data and prevent foreign companies from influencing what videos American users see on the app.
The move comes four months after TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance struck a deal to transfer control of the app’s U.S. user data and operations to the TikTok USDS joint venture to avoid a government ban on the platform used by more than 200 million Americans.
“The divestment deal has left Congress and the American people rightly wondering whether President Trump’s TikTok deal poses a national security risk,” Markey said in letters to Oracle and TikTok USDS.
Oracle is one of the three managing investors in TikTok USDS JV. In January, TikTok announced that it would retrain, test and update…
