The Indian Government banned 59 Chinese apps in our country keeping in mind the data security issues. Now, the department sends 77 questions to all the application owner companies and all are regarding the data security policies, contents the were serving, and lot more. There are also queries whether they censored their contents in favor of foreign governments or not, and they were connected with some influencers to promote their application or not.
Still, there is no information regarding lifting the ban form any of the 59 apps, buy some steps may be taken after getting the answers. For that, the Information Technology Ministry of India gives them a maximum of three weeks’ time.
The major questions are related to censoring the contents uploaded or shown in their platforms. Specifically, if they censored any content related to Pulwama Attack of 2019 or not. Besides, they also asked whether they approached any celebrities in our country for promotion.
Apart from all these, the list also consists of a few other questions from the fields like advertising, privacy policies, their business structures, and most importantly faced investigations in other countries if any.
As I mentioned, all 59 app authorities have a maximum of three weeks’ time. On the other hand, TikTok, the video making Chinese app by ByteDance recently fined $155,000 in South Korea for mishandling child users data.
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