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More than seven months hindmost India issued a countrywide ban on TikTok, the app is significantly reducing its staffing in the country. On Tuesday, Nikkei Asia reported that TikTok was "essentially withdrawing" from India, citing sources familiar with the company.

Reached for comment, a TikTok spokesperson conjunct that it was reducing its workforce in India however disputed the divisions of Nikkei's report.

In a statement, a TikTok spokesperson told The Verge: "Given the parcity of gramercy from the government narrowly how to boldness this issue in the subsequent seven months, it is with subaqueous sadness that we have decided to revitalize our workforce in India... [We] hope to get the episode to relaunch TikTok in India to support the hundreds of millions of users, artists, story-tellers, educators and performers there."

Nikkei appear that "most" local employees were set to be laid off. The TikTok spokesperson told The Border that "well over-and-above than 100" would remain with the company.

India was previously a large bazaar for TikTok, which is owned by the Beijing-based firm ByteDance: 30 percent of TikTok's downloads came from India as of April 2020. As of June, the app had narrowly 167 million users in the country.

"It is with subaqueous sadness that we have decided to revitalize our workforce in India"

TikTok has been contraband in India spine June 29th. In its statement, the country's Officials of Electronics and Intercommunication Technology declared that the apps were "engaged in activities which is prejudicial to sovereignty and candor of India, defence of India, security of state and public order."

ByteDance, at the time, did not indicate plans to pull out. Afterward the announcement, the head of TikTok India issued a statement ultimatum that the congregation had not volume Indian users' intercommunication with the Chinese government and that its practices were in conformity with India's data stoicism and security requirements. "We have been prizewinning to meet with concerned government stakeholders for an befalling to sass and submit clarifications," the statement read. "We quarters the highest importance on user stoicism and integrity."

That wasn't TikTok's inceptive scuffle with the Indian government. Indian lawmakers, including the intercommunication technology monk of Tamil Nadu, called for the app to be banned in early 2019, citing concerns narrowly the dogmas of teens and young adults on the service. Darling and Google pulled the app from their corresponding stores in India in mid-April, afterward a state court request.

That ban was lifted just over a year-end later, and didn't impact implication who were already application TikTok; it merely prevented new downloads. Metrical so, TikTok claimed that it suffered up to $500,000 in losses festival day the ban was in effect.

"We are committed to continuously generous our sign features as a attestation to our ongoing freighting to our users in India," ByteDance said, afterward the lift of the ban.

Other countries have long-running security concerns with TikTok as well. The Trump assistants attempted to confection wires betwixt ByteDance and US companies aftermost year however was impassable from effectual therefrom by the courts. Several US government agencies have contraband the use of the app on government-issued devices.

Updated 02/03/21 11:03AM ET: Added TikTok's estimate of the ordinal of local employees somatic with the company.

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