A former TikTok employee voiced concerns to The Washington Post and congressional investigators about the safety of Americans’ user data, revelations that the Post writes could “undermine” Project Texas, a “$1.5 billion restructuring plan.”
The former employee worked at TikTok’s Trust and Safety division as a head of a unit for six months. They “spoke on the condition of anonymity because of fear of retaliation” and “said he worked to address the data-privacy issues internally but was fired after raising his concerns,” according to the Post. The article states that this individual “said he has not yet filed an official whistleblower complaint with the [Securities and Exchange Commission], and his claims have not been corroborated by an official investigation.”
The anonymous individual told congressional investigators that Project Texas, which is the aforementioned restructuring plan that “TikTok has promoted widely in Washington as a way to neutralize the risk of data theft or misuse by the Chinese government.” He said that there are issues that “could leave data from TikTok’s more than 100 million U.S. users exposed to China-based employees of its parent company ByteDance, even as the company races to implement new safety rules walling off domestic user information.”
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