Top Latest news: Government bans 59 Prejudicial Chinese apps

NEW DELHI: India on Monday TikTok, UC Browser, Shareit, Hello, Weibo, Baidu map and 53 other Chinese apps, a move that clearly points out to an escalation of tensions between neighbours that only a few days ago clashed at their borders in Ladakh.

The government said the apps "are prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order."

A government release said there have been “raging concerns on aspects relating to data security and safeguarding the privacy of 130 crore Indians." It said the Ministry of Information Technology has received many complaints from various sources including several reports about misuse of some mobile 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.

The compilation of these data, its mining and profiling by elements hostile to national security and defence of India, which ultimately impinges upon the sovereignty and integrity of India, is a matter of very deep and immediate concern which requires emergency measures, the release said.