Project Texas

Blanche Desjean-Perrotta, D. Buehler

Roy Ka-Wei Lee, L. Ng

TikTok, a video sharing social media platform, is a subsidiary of ByteDance, a Chinese-owned company, with its headquarters in Singapore. There’s an ongoing concern in the United States Congress that American users’ data may be exposed to unauthorized access or manipulated by foreign entities. In an effort to alleviate these concerns and retain user trust, TikTok launched Project Texas, aimed at safeguarding American users’ data. This commentary examines the broader implications of Project Texas on data governance, particularly in the context of geopolitical boundaries. It delves into the geopolitics of social media and the autonomy of data governance in the digital age, offering advice for all social media platforms regarding these issues.

C. Weed, H. Shafer

This monograph reports the findings made during the summer of 1977 of test excavations and/or surface collections at 17 prehistoric archaeological sites in the Choke Canyon Reservoir area. The work was carried out by Texas A&M University for the Center for Archaeological Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio. The field work was conducted to assess the archaeological potential of each site in order to advance recommendations for further investigations. The artifact samples, although meager, are described and these data are incorporated with other information from each site towards an overall site evaluation. Recommendations for further work are also included at the end of the report.

M. Hamilton

K. Wicker