In a letter to the Indian government dated June 28th and seen by Reuters on Friday, TikTok Chief Executive Kevin Mayer stated the Chinese authorities has by no means requested user data, nor would the corporate flip it over if requested.
TikTok, which isn’t accessible in China, is owned by China‘s ByteDance however has sought to distance itself from its Chinese roots to attraction to a worldwide viewers. Along with 58 different Chinese apps, together with Tencent Holdings Ltd’s WeChat and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd‘s UC Browser, it was banned in India this week following a border conflict with China.
“I can confirm that the Chinese government has never made a request to us for the TikTok data of Indian users,” Mayer wrote, including that knowledge for Indian customers is saved in servers in Singapore. “If we do ever receive such a request in the future, we would not comply.”
The letter was despatched forward of a probable assembly subsequent week between the corporate and the federal government, one supply acquainted with the matter instructed Reuters.
One Indian authorities supply instructed Reuters this week the ban was unlikely to be revoked quickly. Lawyers have stated a authorized problem was unlikely to achieve success, given India has cited nationwide safety considerations for the ban.
The ban, which upset India’s rising legion of TikTok stars, has additionally given a carry to native rivals comparable to Roposo, which added 22 million new customers within the 48 hours after the ban took impact.
TikTok has dedicated to spend $1 billion within the area. Since its launch in 2017, it has turn out to be one of many fastest- rising social media apps. India is its largest market by consumer, adopted by the United States.
In the letter, Mayer performed up the corporate’s funding within the area, highlighting greater than 3,500 direct and oblique workers and content material accessible in 14 languages.
“The privacy of our users, and the security and sovereignty of India, are of utmost importance to us,” Mayer wrote. “We have already announced our plans to build a data centre in India.”
The correspondence was first reported by the Wall Street Journal and different media.
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