As after the major standoff between Chinese and Indian army, the nation has been demanding boycott Chinese products as well as the apps. Thus an Inspector General, Special Task Force in Uttar Pradesh released the list of 52 apps to uninstall and has orders it special task force to uninstall it from their phones.
Uttar Pradesh IG, STF, Amitabh Yash, wrote in the order that “all of these apps are Chinese and it can all steal data from you phone”
The list of applications in the order includes the video conferencing software Zoom, TikTok short-video software, and other utility and content applications such as UC client, Xender, SHAREit, and Clean-master.
It is reportedly said that Intelligence agencies have handed over a list of 52 mobile applications to the Government of India. Intel agencies have asked the government to either block these applications or advise people to avoid using them.
These applications are reportedly linked to China.
According to a report in India Today, the list contains some popular apps such as Zoom and TikTok. The list that was reportedly prepared in April also includes some commonly used apps such as UC Browser, Xender, SHAREit and Clean-master.
Shopping portals such as Shein and Club Factory and gaming apps such as Clash of the Kings have also made it to the list, as per the news site.
A senior government official said the intelligence agencies’ recommendation had been recently backed by the Secretariat of the National Security Council, which felt these could be detrimental to the security of India.
“The discussions on the recommendations continue,” an official said, adding that the criteria and threats associated with each mobile device need to be discussed one by one.
On the advice of India’s National Cybersecurity Agency – Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-in), the home ministry had released an advisory on the use of Zoom in April this year. India wasn’t the first country within the government to limit the use of Zoom.
