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TikTok Global Chief Security Officer Steps Down in Reorg to ‘Minimize Concerns’ Over U.S. User Data

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Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorVeteran security exec Roland Cloutier is stepping down after two and half years as TikTok’s global chief security officer.

According to TikTok, the change is part of a restructuring in how the app provider, owned by China’s ByteDance, manages data of U.S.-based users — amid heightened scrutiny from some U.S.

lawmakers.“Part of our evolving approach has been to minimize concerns about the security of user data in the U.S., including the creation of a new department to manage U.S.

user data for TikTok,” TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew and ByteDance VP of technology Dingkun Hong wrote in a memo to employees Friday, which TikTok shared publicly.The decision to establish a dedicated U.S.

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