Indian Home Ministry is continuing its ban orders on Chinese apps, as it has blocked 43 new mobile apps, including shopping website AliExpress owned by e-commerce behemoth Alibaba on Tuesday. The list includes WeWorkChina, CamCard and Snack. These apps have been banned by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) for engaging in activities which are "prejudicial to the sovereignty and integrity of the country, defence, security of the state and public order".
The reports received from the Indian Cyber Crime Co-ordination Centre, Ministry of Home Affairs prompted the ban. Earlier, on September 2 the Indian government had banned 118 apps on national security concerns, including the immensely popular PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) Mobile, Baidu and couple of virtual private networks (VPNs) that allowed access to TikTok. The list of banned applications includes Baidu Express Edition, ShareSave by Xiaomi, WeChat Work, Tencent Weiyun, Tencent Watchlist, Alipay, GO SMS Pro, ZAKZAK Pro and Live, Smart AppLock and Ludo World-Ludo Superstar few among others.
Previously in July, the government barred 47 Chinese apps from operating in the country, which were largely clones of the 59 apps that were banned in June. On June 29, 59 applications were banned including TikTok, WeChat, UC Browser and Xiaomi's Mi Community over national security concerns. Other applications include Club Factory, SHAREit, Likee, Mi Video Call (Xiaomi), Weibo, Baidu, BIGO LIVE and more.
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