TikTok Stuff

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By Ray Pride

September 14, 2020

Oracle Corp., Company Held By One Of World’s Richest Men, Multibillionaire Trump And RNC Supporter Larry Ellison, To Take TikTok “Trusted Tech Partner” Tier; Question Of Data Mining Remains Open

Trump, In August: “I think Oracle is a great company, and I think its owner is a tremendous guy, He’s a tremendous person. I think that Oracle would be certainly somebody that could handle it.”

Kara Swisher: “Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing but a sweet cloud deal for a friend of Trump’s: Oracle was chosen as the winner in a deal for TikTok’s U.S. operations. TikTok signed a three year cloud services deal with Google in May of 2019 for $800m. Whither that? Who knows?”

“Oracle spent years fighting to unseat Amazon as the front-runner for a lucrative Pentagon cloud contract, which was awarded to Microsoft Corp. The company has also been locked in a decade-long legal dispute with Google, claiming the search-engine giant violated Oracle copyrights by including some Java programming code in the Android phone. Oracle acquired Java’s developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., in 2010.”

“Oracle has said nothing publicly about what it would do with TikTok’s underlying technology, which is written by a Chinese engineering team in Beijing — and which Mike Pompeo has charged is answerable to Chinese intelligence agencies. That is a major concern of American intelligence agencies, led by the National Security Agency and United States Cyber Command, which warned internally that whoever controls the computer code could channel — or censor — a range of politically sensitive information to specific users.”

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