Potential TikTok-Oracle data-sharing agreement could impact future data localization

Following reports of mobile application TikTok and Oracle nearing a data-sharing agreement that would keep U.S.-user data maintained within American borders, Wired's Matt Perault writes on the data localization precedent this could create. The potential deal follows U.S. government threats to ban TikTok in 2020 due to concerns the Chinese government would access Americans' data through TikToks' Chinese parent company ByteDance. Perault wrote the deal could make room for other governments to make similar demands to keep domestic user data within their own borders, which Big Tech has pushed against due to compliance concerns.