TikTok has safeguards in place to allay fears of having to share user data with China.
Dubbed "Project Clover," the measures would allow an independent security firm to "monitor data streams" and make it harder for TikTok to identify individual users in the data.
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Security Gates will add another layer of control over staff access to European user information and data transfers outside Europe.
The European Commission has banned its employees from using an application of the Chinese company "ByteDance" on their devices.
"We're ahead of the curve because we need and want to earn trust," said Theo Bertram, TikTok's vice president of government relations and public policy for Europe.
A similar plan called "Project Texas" is currently underway in the US. More than 100 million Americans use the video app.
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