Mashable: On Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

On Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and he wants to talk about the security measures in place to prevent "unauthorized foreign access" to the company's US operations from China. He will tell them that Chinese authorities can't get into the data of the app's 150 million US users.

According to the CEO, despite the fact that Chinese data request regulations require corporations to send over information to the authorities regarding clients, TikTok's Beijing-based corporate owner ByteDance is exempt.

The Biden administration has called TikTok a threat to national security and is asking that the app's Chinese owners divest their holdings in the company or face a potential ban.

Zi Chew would reportedly add in his prepared testimony, "Let me state this unequivocally: ByteDance is not an agent of China or any other country," which was made accessible by the House committee on Tuesday night.

Zi Chew will brief the congressional panel on "Project Texas," a $1.5 billion reorganization of the corporation in which Oracle, headquartered in Austin, would be responsible for storing and monitoring the massive amounts of personal data TikTok receives from users in the United States.

The main takeaway is that " American data is held on American territory by an American corporation, monitored by American individuals," Zi Chew expects to tell Congress. "Now, all U.S. TikTok data is automatically saved on Oracle's servers. Access to this information will be strictly managed by a new organization named TikTok U.S. Data Security, staffed only by pre-screened employees."

Several nations have banned the app from government-owned cell phones because of security concerns similar to those in the United States.

To practice "good cyber hygiene," the United Kingdom has taken the step of blocking TikTok on government-issued computers and mobile devices. The European Commission requested that all staff remove the TikTok software from any work-issued devices by March 15th.

This change comes after TikTok admitted in November that its staff in China and a number of other countries had remote access to data pertaining to European users. Until that point, many assumed that information was held solely in Singapore and the United States.

According to sources familiar with the issue, TikTok has been trying to convince advertisers that the app is unlikely to be blocked in the U.S. in recent days, as some businesses have begun making preparations for potential changes in ad spending.