47 More Apps Banned Name. India has banned 47 more Chinese apps just weeks after banning 59 of them, including TikTok, a video-sharing social networking app owned by ByteDance, a Beijing-based internet company. "We have banned 47 mobile apps from China in this ongoing exercise which highlights the government's seriousness about data privacy and security," an Indian. The government has barred 47 more Chinese apps which were variants of the 59 apps earlier banned for violation of data and privacy issues. The banned apps are the clones of the previously barred apps such as Bytedance’s TikTok and Helo. While the government has not officially named the apps which. India has banned 47 more Chinese apps just weeks after blocking the highly popular video-sharing platform TikTok and 58 others over national security and privacy concerns, an information ministry official and media reports said Monday.
New Delhi: The government has banned 47 more Chinese apps, taking the total number of mobile applications banned for being prejudicial to sovereignty, integrity and defence of the country, to 106, according to a source. The source privy to the development said that the 47 additional Chinese apps that have been banned now were clones and variants of the apps which were blocked earlier. According to an order issued on Friday, July 24, the ban will be extended to 47 Chinese apps which were clones of the previously banned 59 Chinese apps. The new list of 47 banned apps will be released soon and is most likely to include alternatives or lite versions of the apps that were previously banned in the country on June 29.
The Indian government on Monday banned 47 more Chinese apps that were clones of the 59 apps banned last month. The list of these 47 banned apps will be released soon. The decision to ban the 47.
The new Chinese 47 apps ban has been issued since these apps were doing the same thing as the original banned Chinese apps under a new name. The authorities haven’t revealed the list of the banned apps as of now however, reports on the internet are revealing that some apps that had recently surfaced have gone missing. "A ban on 47 apps was ordered late last week on grounds of national security and privacy concerns," the first person cited above told Mint.Name of these apps could not be immediately confirmed. A few days back the Indian government has banned 59 Chinese apps for privacy violations. As per the news, most of these 47 Chinese apps are banned for privacy violations. Till now, the Indian government has banned 106 Chinese apps (47+59) for citizens and also banned 89 apps for the Indian army. New Delhi: Nearly a month after banning 59 Chinese apps, the Indian government has barred 47 more Chinese apps from operating in the country, which were largely clones of the previously banned apps, sources said. The list of the concerned mobile applications will be published soon.
