This might work for government, but what about the huge number of companies that use BYOD for phones, giving their employees a stipend for their phones? Tik Tok is a security issue. Researchers have found inactive malicious code that records data entered into sites loaded from the in app browser (ads that pull up web sites or other links). The Chinese government owns a stake in ByteDance and can ask for data at any time.

It is unclear if ByteDance’s long delayed plans to host US data with Oracle will be enough to address these concerns. However, people love Tik Tok and the US is unlikely to stop its use. The best outcome would be a US competitor. I doubt that’s any that are currently in use.