‘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.
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NEW DELHI â The China-based short video service TikTok, that enjoyed nearly 120 million users in India before the ban amid plans to invest $1 billion, on Jan. 27 announced to scale down its 2,000-strong workforce in the country.
The decision came against the backdrop of TikTok being among the 59 Chinese apps that the government has decided to permanently ban. The app was first banned temporarily along with other apps in last June.
âIt is deeply regretful that after supporting our 2,000+ employees in India for more than half a year, we have no choice but to scale back the size of our workforce,â a TikTok spokesperson said in a statement.
Centre set to permanently ban 59 Chinese apps
Centre set to permanently ban 59 Chinese apps
Last Updated: Wed, Jan 27th, 2021, 07:43:58hrs
New Delhi: The Union Government has decided to permanently ban 59 Chinese mobile applications including TikTok.
The development comes several months after the government had first banned Chinese apps temporarily in last June.
The government had sought responses from the companies on the show cause notices, but sources said that it is not satisfied with their responses.
According to people in the know, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has sent notices to 59 apps including Tiktok.
The ministry suspended access to the apps in India last year amid the border tussle with China. It had said that these measures were undertaken on the basis of credible information that these apps are engaged in activities which are prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order.
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