‘India needs to recover its user data from banned Chinese apps’
By IANS| Published: 3rd February 2021 6:44 pm IST
New Delhi, Feb 3 : The government must direct the banned Chinese apps to hand over the entire data of Indian users, former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologue K.N. Govindacharya has urged.
In a letter addressed to the Union Home Secretary, Govindacharya said that the government should also pave the way for cybersecurity audit of these apps by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) so that senstive and valuable Indian data are not further compromised.
Last year, India had banned over 200 apps citing various reasons, including national security concerns and reports of stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users’ data in an unauthorised manner to servers which have locations outside India.