Microsoft is negotiating a transition period that will give it time to ringfence TikTok technologically from ByteDance after they agree to a deal, Reuters reported on August 2. “Algorithms are not worth anything without the data,” said Jim DuBois, a former Chief Information Officer at Microsoft. Not only would TikTok have to be separated from ByteDance, it would have to be broken up from TikTok’s other regions. “The biggest part is separating the user data - both content and data about users,” DuBois said, noting hard disks of data would likely need to be transferred between ByteDance and Microsoft. TikTok had said its user data was stored in the US, with a backup in Singapore, separate from the rest of the company.

Source: Dhaka Tribune August 11, 2020 03:11 UTC