ByteDance-owned TikTok wants to convince European governments that it is an industry leader in data protection rather than a Chinese-owned app that warrants the wave of bans across the continent.
The company said on Wednesday it plans to build three European data centers to store information on TikTok's 150 million users in the region with the help of an independent third company that will oversee data access controls. The data centers will cost the company €1.2 billion $1.3 billion a year.
Similar to the Project Texas in the U.S. TikTok's Project Clover, the Chinese Communist Party can assure concerned governments that the Chinese Communist Party can't access European data through the front door, via official legal requests or back door. It follows the White House endorsement of a bipartisan bill that could give the president authority to ban or force a sale of TikTok.
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