India on Monday banned 59 Mobile Apps including popular Apps like Tik-Tok,Uc browser etc,saying they were prejudicial to the sovereignty,integrity and security to the Country.In a statement Ministry of Electronic and IT said it 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 unauthorised 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" -statement said.
The government has also banned apps of Chinese handset maker xiaomi like Mi community and Mi video call .Currently Xiaomi is the India's largest handset brand.
The It Ministry said it has invoked its power under section 69A of the It Act and rules,and has decided to block 59 Apps in view of information available that they are "engaged in activities which are prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India,defence of India,Security of state and public Order".
The move will "safeguard the interests of crores of Indian mobile and internet users. This decision is a targeted move to ensure safety and sovereignty of Indian cyberspace", says Ravi Shankar Prasad ,Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology.
The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre, Ministry of Home Affairs, has also sent an exhaustive recommendation for blocking these malicious apps, the statement said, adding that there has been a strong chorus in the public space to take strict action against apps that harm India's sovereignty as well as the privacy of citizens
"On the basis of these and upon receiving recent credible inputs that such apps pose threat to sovereignty and integrity of India, the Government of India has decided to disallow the usage of certain apps, used in both mobile and non-mobile Internet enabled devices"
"There have been raging concerns on aspects relating to data security and safeguarding the privacy of 130 crore Indians. It has been noted recently that such concerns also pose a threat to sovereignty and security of our country," added in the statement.
If these banned apps place their servers in India and give assurance to the data stored in their servers they may come again in India.
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