In a significant move on Wednesday, the Indian Army has asked its personnel to delete 89 applications from their smartphones including Facebook, TikTok, Truecaller, and Instagram to plug leakage of information, news agency ANI reported quoting Indian Army sources. It also put out a list of those applications that the Indian Army has asked its personnel to delete. The list includes the China-based applications that are already banned; other big names are Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, PUBG, Zoom, Daily Hunt, Tinder, Truecaller, Clash of Kings, Club Factory, Tumblr, Reddit.
The move was taken in wake of rising cyber crime hacks and information leaks due to some high risk apps, India is taking many strong actions against cyber crime and suspects on China for information leaks. The army personnels are requested to ban apps like snap chat, instagram ,pubg, we chat etc which are threat to army’s privacy.
India bans Chinese apps
In a big move last week, the Home Ministry banned 59 Chinese Apps including TikTok. The government said that it had received many complaints from various sources about the misuse of these apps for stealing and transmitting users’ data in an unauthorized manner to foreign servers.
As India banned the apps including TikTok, Chinese mouthpiece Global Times quoting sources said that the loss to the parent company – Beijing-based ByteDance could be as high as $6 billion. At the time that TikTok was taken down, it had approximately 370 million users on the Play Store, with a large majority of those coming from India
PM Modi Quits Chinese App
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 1 quit the Twitter-like Weibo account in China. The account, which posted messages in Chinese, removed all photos, posts and comments from the PM’s official handle. Reports stated that China had deleted ‘official Indian statements’, including PM Modi’s speech from the Indian embassy’s official account on WeChat – China’s popular social media app.
It is very necessary that we common people should stop using Chinese apps and products to promote Atmanirbhar Bharat.
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