Oracle’s Role in TikTok Security Panned as Rerun of Flawed Plan

President Donald Trump’s plan to save TikTok for Americans casts Oracle Corp. as the security guard for US user data and the app’s all-important algorithm.

“Oracle is playing a very big part. Oracle really understands this,” Trump said from the Oval Office this week. “So I think it’s going to be very well protected.” White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said Friday that Oracle would function as “the great firewall of America.”

But TikTok, owned by China-based ByteDance Ltd., and Oracle have spent several years and billions of dollars working together to safeguard TikTok US data as part of a partnership known as “Project Texas” ...