​​​​​​​Indian Army asks for deletion of 89 apps including FB, Tinder, PUBG to plug leaks

In a significant move on Wednesday, Indian Army has asked its personnel to delete 89 applications from ir smartphones including Facebook, TikTok, Truecaller, and Instagram to plug leak of information, news ncy ANI reported quoting Indian Army sources. It also put out a list of those applications that Indian Army has asked its personnel to delete.  list includes  China-based applications that are alrey banned; or big names are Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, PUBG, Zoom, Daily Hunt, Tinder, Truecaller, Clash of Kings, Club Factory, Tumblr, Reddit.

Full list here: 

This comes as mobile applications especially Facebook and Zoom facing heat for its privacy policies and data security. As Black Lives Matter protest gained momentum, major companies stalled ir vertisement on social media platforms to review hate speech and privacy terms and conditions. 

TikTok says it's stopping its operations in Hong-Kong, after India bans China-based app

India bans Chinese apps

In a big move last week, Home Ministry banned 59 Chinese Apps including TikTok. Centre stated that it has received many complaints from various sources including several reports about misuse of se apps for stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users’ data in an unauthorized manner to servers that have locations outside India. 

As India banned apps including TikTok, Chinese mouthpiece Global Times quoting sources said that loss to parent company - Beijing-based ByteDance could be as high as $6 billion. At time that TikTok was taken down, it h approximately 370 million users on Play Store, with a large majority of those coming from India. 

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Issuing a statement on apps ban by India, China h said that it violates international tre rms. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said that Beijing is strongly concerned, and is verifying situation. He also ded that Indian government has a responsibility to uphold legal rights of international investors including Chinese ones. 

PM Modi Quits Chinese App

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 1 quit Twitter-like Weibo account in China. account, which posted messs in Chinese, removed all photos, posts and comments from PM's official handle. Reports stated that China h deleted 'official Indian statements', including PM Modi's speech from Indian embassy’s official account on WeChat - China's popular social media app. PM Modi's Weibo account was set up in 2015 before his first visit to country as Prime Minister. account h 115 posts on Weibo, which h to be deleted manually as Weibo has a complex procedure to quit for VIP accounts.

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