Under intense scrutiny from Washington that could lead to a potential ban, the top attorney for TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance defended the social media platform맥스카지노�s plan to safeguard U.S. user data from China.맥스카지노�The basic approach that we맥스카지노�re following is to make it physically impossible for any government, including the Chinese government, to get access to U.S. user data," said general counsel Erich Andersen during a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press at a cybersecurity conference in Sausalito, California, on Friday sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation and Aspen Digital and featuring top government officials, tech executives and journalists.ByteDance will continue to develop its new app called Lemon8, Andersen said.맥스카지노�We맥스카지노�re obviously going to do our best with the Lemon8 app to comply with U.S. law and to make sure we do the right thing here," Andersen said, referring to the new social app developed by ByteDance that resembles Instagram and Pinterest. 맥스카지노�But I think we got a long way to go with that application 맥스카지노� it's pretty much a startup phase.맥스카지노�ByteDance맥스카지노�s most known app, TikTok, is under intense scrutiny over concerns it could hand over user data to the Chinese government or push pro-Beijing propaganda and misinformation on its behalf. Lemon8 was introduced across app stores in Japan in April 2020 and has been rolled out in more countries since then. It's available for download in the U.S. and could face similar scrutiny to TikTok.Leaders at the FBI, CIA and officials at other government agencies have warned that ByteDance could be forced to give user data 맥스카지노� such as browsing history, IP addresses and biometric identifiers 맥스카지노� to Beijing under a 2017 law that compels companies to cooperate with the government for matters involving China맥스카지노�s national security. Another Chinese law, implemented in 2014, has similar mandates.To assuage concerns from U.S. officials, TikTok has been emphasizing a $1.5 billion proposal, called Project Texas, to store all U.S. user data on servers owned and maintained by the software giant Oracle. Under the plan, access to U.S. data would be managed by U.S. employees through a separate entity called TikTok U.S. Data Security, which is run independently of ByteDance and monitored by outside observers.Some lawmakers have said that맥스카지노�s not enough. But despite skepticism about the project, TikTok says it is moving forward anyway.맥스카지노�We맥스카지노�re investing in a system where people don맥스카지노�t have to believe the Chinese government and they don맥스카지노�t have to believe us,맥스카지노� Andersen said.He also wondered if the skepticism was being driven by something else.맥스카지노�Where are we falling short here?맥스카지노� he said. 맥스카지노�At some point you get beyond the cybersecurity risk assessment, etcetera, and you get to 맥스카지노�We don맥스카지노�t like your nationality.맥스카지노�맥스카지노�TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew has said the company started deleting all historic U.S. user data from non-Oracle servers this month and expects that process to be completed this year. During a congressional hearing held last week, Chew said migrating the data to Oracle will keep it out of China맥스카지노�s hands, but also acknowledged China-based employees may still have access to it before the process wraps up.TikTok maintains it has never been requested to turn over any kind of data and won맥스카지노�t do so if asked. But whether those promises, or Project Texas, will allow it to stay operating in the U.S. remains to be seen.The U.S., as well as Britain, the European Union and others, have banned TikTok on government devices. And the Biden administration is reportedly threatening a U.S. ban on the app unless its Chinese owners divest their stakes in the company.On Friday, Andersen said a ban would be "basically giving up".맥스카지노�Banning a platform like TikTok is a defeat, it맥스카지노�s a statement that we aren맥스카지노�t creative enough to find another way,맥스카지노� he said.China has said it would oppose a possible sale, a declaration that makes it more difficult for TikTok to position itself and ByteDance as a global enterprise instead of a Chinese company. In 2020, the country had also come out in fierce opposition to executive orders by then President Donald Trump that sought to ban TikTok and the messaging app WeChat."They were clear about their point of view back in 2020 timeframe when we faced an existential challenge from executive orders under the Trump administration,맥스카지노� Andersen said.Courts blocked Trump맥스카지노�s efforts, and President Joe Biden rescinded Trump맥스카지노�s orders after taking office. The company has since been in talks about privacy concerns with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a multi-agency panel that sits under the Treasury department.Meanwhile, lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been pushing bills that would effectively ban TikTok or give the administration more authority to do so. One bill by U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley was blocked this week by Sen. Rand Paul, the only Republican who has come out in opposition to a TikTok ban. A small number of progressive lawmakers have also said they would oppose a ban, and argued the U.S. should implement a national privacy law to curtail the problem.Andersen said Friday TikTok would support broad-based privacy legislation."Our view is that we would really welcome broad-based legislation that applies broadly and evenly,맥스카지노� he said. 맥스카지노�What we don맥스카지노�t like, frankly, is legislation that is sort of targeted at one company.맥스카지노�TikTok could also be banned through another bill, called the RESTRICT Act, that has garnered broad bipartisan support in the Senate and backing from the White House. The legislation does not call out TikTok but would give the Commerce Department power to review and potentially restrict foreign threats to technology platforms.