After the skirmish with China at the Galwan valley border, the Indian Government banned 59 Chinese apps including TikTok. The government had cited data theft and security concerns as the main reason for the ban. Now, it has gone a step further and banned 47 additional apps in the country. In addition, it is mulling over a list of 275 apps that are under suspicion. And while these 275 apps are not named yet, chances are that it could likely PUBG Mobile.
DD News operating under the Broadcasting Ministry of India posted on Twitter that the Government of India has banned 47 such apps. These were found to be the cloned versions of the apps that were banned a while ago.
Although the final list of scanned apps is not revealed officially yet, some of them include Cam scanner Advanced, TikTok Lite, Helo Lite, ShareIt Lite, BIGO Live Lite, VFY Lite and many others.
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That’s not all. Reports state that the government has already made a list of 275 Chinese apps and is expected to scrutinize them for violations of data theft and security. As per Economic Times, the list includes Tencent’s Popular PUBG Mobile, Xiaomi’s Zili, AliExpress and ByteDance’s Resso.
However, a person familiar with the matter said to ET that the Government may partially/completely ban the 275 apps in the list. Alternatively, they could be cleared for operation as well. Official sources added that the main motive of this is to find the potential funding routes of these apps as some of them have been red-flagged as insecure. On the other hand, some are under violation of data and privacy.
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Officials from Meity also added that a due process will be followed before taking action. Moreover, a law will be enacted in future to streamline the process.