Oracle and TikTok have a corporate partnership called Project Texas that allows U.S. user data to be stored on Oracle’s cloud.
Oracle privately met with Senate aides about their data housing agreement with TikTok after a bill that could ban the social media app from use in the United States passed the House in mid-March.Oracle met with a mix of staffers from the Senate Commerce Committee and Senate Intelligence Committee to discuss efforts to house U.S. TikTok's users data on Oracle cloud serversOracle acts as the data center for U.S. TikTok users.
Glueck said Oracle did not lobby for or against the TikTok bill, and only disclosed the meetings on mandatory filings in order to be transparent."In a TikTok ban or shut-down scenario, Oracle would lose what is likely its largest OCI customer. This would be a negative, there is no sugar-coating it,"Though the initial House bill briefly stalled in the Senate, a similar piece of legislation passed the House on Saturday and already has key support in the Senate.
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