India’s government has banned TikTok and 58 more Chinese-made apps, it says are a danger to the country. In total, 59 different apps were banned, including popular messaging app WeChat.
In a statement made by India Ministry of Information and and Technology, it said the apps were “prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order”.
This is also as a result of the escalating tensions along the disputed border between the two countries.
Both India and China deployed more troops to the Ladakh region in June, and minor clashes have left at least 20 Indian troops dead.
Satellite images also appear to show that China has built new structures overlooking the Himalayan border region.
India’s Ministry of Information and Technology said it was banning the 59 Chinese apps after receiving “many complaints from various sources” about apps that were “stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users data in an unauthorised manner”.
The Ministry added, “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.”
Meanwhile, TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has fiercely rejects the claims made by India’s Ministry of Information and Technology.
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