India on Monday banned dozens of Chinese apps, including TikTok, raising privacy and security concerns, a move that occurs less than two weeks after a deadly skirmish along the two-nation border.
The Ministry of Electronics and Informatics said the 59 applications were “involved in activities that are detrimental to the sovereignty and integrity of India, the defense of India and the security of the state and public order.”
“The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) has also received many representations from citizens regarding data security and privacy violation affecting public order issues,” the government agency also said. Indian.
The bans are the latest digital confrontation between the two most populous countries in the world.
They also come a few weeks after more than 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a clash with Chinese forces in the Himalayas.
It is not immediately clear how the ban will be implemented or how it will affect app stores.
The Hill contacted TikTok for comment. The app has 119 million active users in India.
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