A few weeks ago I wrote a story about India banning TikTok over security concerns. There’s news now that they’ve banned 118 apps of Chinese origin including PUBG and Tencent. Medianama shared an official statement from the Indian government on the ban extension:
“The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has received many complaints from various sources including several reports about misuse of some mobile apps available on Android and iOS platforms for stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users’ data in an unauthorized manner to servers which have locations outside India. The compilation of these data, its mining and profiling by elements hostile to national security and defence of India, which ultimately impinges upon the sovereignty and integrity of India, is a matter of very deep and immediate concern which requires emergency measures,” the IT Ministry said in a statement.
You can fully expect this to inflame tensions between India an China. And those two countries have lots of tensions at the moment. Plus it will likely encourage the US to ban more Chinese apps. Especially seeing as the date to ban TikTok in the US is approaching.
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India Bans More Chinese Apps….. 118 Of Them….
A few weeks ago I wrote a story about India banning TikTok over security concerns. There’s news now that they’ve banned 118 apps of Chinese origin including PUBG and Tencent. Medianama shared an official statement from the Indian government on the ban extension:
“The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has received many complaints from various sources including several reports about misuse of some mobile apps available on Android and iOS platforms for stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users’ data in an unauthorized manner to servers which have locations outside India. The compilation of these data, its mining and profiling by elements hostile to national security and defence of India, which ultimately impinges upon the sovereignty and integrity of India, is a matter of very deep and immediate concern which requires emergency measures,” the IT Ministry said in a statement.
You can fully expect this to inflame tensions between India an China. And those two countries have lots of tensions at the moment. Plus it will likely encourage the US to ban more Chinese apps. Especially seeing as the date to ban TikTok in the US is approaching.
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