Government has banned 54 Chinese apps posing threat to national
security. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has
issued the list of banned apps. These include Beauty Camera: Sweet
Selfie HD, Beauty Camera - Selfie Camera, Equalizer & Bass Booster,
CamCard for SalesForce Ent, Isoland 2: Ashes of Time Lite, Viva Video
Editor, Tencent Xriver, Onmyoji Chess, Onmyoji Arena, AppLock and Dual
Space Lite to name a few.
The list of 54 apps includes some of those that been had been banned by
the government earlier but were rebranded and relaunched under new
names. Upon official confirmation and after establishing the country of
origin, orders have once again been issued to ban the apps.
Several of these apps have been known to either run malicious software
or directly send user information to China-based data centres without
user consent.
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