The Indian government on Friday banned 47 more Chinese apps after 59 China based apps were banned in June end. These 47 apps were acting as clones of the 59 Chinese apps that were banned earlier.
The decision came just days after the Indian government warned the makers of the banned 59 apps of Chinese origin, strictly comply with the ban order.
The government said that those violating the order would face serious action, as per sources.
The government had issued the order to ban 59 apps with Chinese links on June 29, stating that these were prejudicial to sovereignty, integrity and security of the country. The banned apps included popular ones like TikTok, CamScanner, SHAREit and UC Browser.
The communication further stated that if any banned app was found to be available in India through any means, directly or indirectly, the government would view this as a violation of its orders.
The government communication underlined that apps were banned in exercise of the sovereign powers and Section 69A of the Information Technology Act.
While issue the June 29 order, the IT Ministry had stated that it had received numerous complaints against 59 mobile apps, including several on misuse of the 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”.
