The social media company responded by letter on Thursday to questions from nine Republican US senators about its data storage and access policies.
The letter was initially published by the New York Times, but TikTok has since confirmed its content to AFP.
In its letter on Thursday, TikTok confirmed claims made in a BuzzFeed article that employees based in China had access to US users' data, but only within"robust cybersecurity controls and authorization approval protocols" overseen by the company's"U.S.-based security team."The company reiterated to the senators that the Chinese Communist Party had never requested data on American users.
During his White House tenure, former president Donald Trump was concerned about the security of the platform's data and tried to force ByteDance to sell its subsidiary to Oracle.
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