A former TikTok employee who worked for six months as part of the company’s Trust and Safety division has been meeting with member of congress and warning them that the company can’t be trusted.
His allegations threaten to undermine this $1.5 billion restructuring plan, known as Project Texas, which TikTok has promoted widely in Washington as a way to neutralize the risk of data theft or misuse by the Chinese government…
The former employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of fear of retaliation, has told congressional investigators that Project Texas does not go far enough and that a truly leakproof arrangement for Americans’ data would require a “complete re-engineering” of how TikTok is run.
TikTok has been doing its best to convince lawmakers that no US data could possibly be taken, viewed or manipulated by the company’s Chinese owners. Last month the company opened a “Transparency and Accountability Center” in Los Angeles and invited a bunch of tech journalists to view it.
