Oracle met with Senate aides on TikTok data housing project [Video]

Oracle‘s top lobbyist in Washington met privately with Senate aides about the company’s data housing agreement with TikTok this spring, after a bill that could effectively ban the social media app in the United States passed the House in mid-March.

Oracle acts as the data center for U.S. TikTok users. The House legislation would require TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance to divest the social media app, or face an eventual ban in the United States.

“We had four meetings, primarily to discuss the technical mitigations” of the data storage project, said Oracle EVP Ken Glueck, who described the previously unreported talks to CNBC on Monday.

To set up the meetings, Oracle turned to two lobbying firms: Fierce Government Relations and Polaris Government Relations, according to Glueck and newly filed disclosure reports.

Glueck led discussions with staffers for the Senate Commerce Committee and the Intelligence Committee, he said. Two of the meetings …