Shein breaks silence on being banned in India; says it's preparing compliance documents

China-based online e-commerce website Shein issued its first statement to its erstwhile India users on Wednesday after being banned by government along with 58 or Chinese applications. In its statement, Shein said that company is working hard on “preparation and submission of relevant documents required by Indian Government to comply with new policies". Stating that customer privacy is its top priority, Shein assured to comply with all security requirements of customers around world.

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Shein's first statment to India

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Tiktok's first response after ban

Shein's response to Indian government was similar to that of Tiktok, though many days later. Within hours of being banned along with 58 or China-origin apps, Nikhil Gandhi, Head of TikTok India, said that app was in process of complying with government's 'interim order'. 

"We have been invited to meet concerned government stakeholders for an opportunity to respond and submit clarifications. TikTok continues to comply with all data privacy and security requirements under Indian law and has t shared any information of our users in India with any foreign government, including Chinese government," statement reads.

"Furr we are requested to in future we would t do so. We place highest importance on user privacy and integrity," it added.

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India bans 59 Chinese applications

On June 29, Central government had banned 59 Chinese applications including popular Shein, Tiktok and UC Browser on grounds of privacy concerns. Centre stated that it received many complaints from various sources about misuse of se apps for stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users’ data in an unauthorized manner to servers which have locations outside India. In a move to protect sovereignty of Indian Cyber and to ensure interests of crores of Indian mobile users, government said that this was a major blow to China’s Digital Silk Route ambitions.

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