Special News | 14 Apps Banned by Indian Government | The reason why

Special News | 14 Apps Banned by Indian Government | The reason why

India has restricted these 14 messanger applications :-

1. BChat
2. Briar
3. Conion
4. Crypviser
5. Element
6. Enigma
7. IMO
8. Mediafire
9. Nandbox
10. Safeswiss
11. Secondline
12. Threema
13. Wickrme
14. Zangi

"The government of India banned them under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000."

India has banned 14 mobile messenger applications that were largely used in Jammu and Kashmir for spreading terror. The intelligence agencies informed that these apps are spreading terror propaganda in the Valley. 

It is also reported that terrorists used these mobile messenger apps to spread the message and receive messages from Pakistan. These apps have been blocked under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000

The government has currently not listed the names of the messenger application that were banned, however, a source told News18 that apps like Crypviser, Enigma, Safeswiss, Wickrme, Mediafire, Briar, BChat, Nandbox, Conion, IMO, Element, Second line, Zangi, Threema among others have been blocked.

Sources have likewise guaranteed that these versatile applications were involved by psychological militants in Kashmir to speak with their allies and on-ground laborers (OGW). Authorities let ANI know that "Organizations monitor channels utilized by Overground laborers (OGWs) and psychological militants to convey among themselves. While finding one of the correspondence, organizations found that the portable application doesn't have delegates in India and it is hard to find exercises occurring on the application. From there on, with the assistance of other knowledge organizations working in the valley, a rundown of such applications was arranged that represent a danger to public safety and don't observe Indian regulations."

This isn't whenever versatile application first have been restricted in the country. Prior also refering to security reasons numerous Chinese applications were prohibited. In a new occurrence, more than 200 Chinese application were restricted in India. The public authority had requested to boycott around 230 Chinese applications, including 138 wagering applications and 94 advance loaning applications, on "critical" and "crisis" premise. Reports expressed that the public authority started an investigation of upwards of 288 Chinese applications close to a half year prior and found that these applications might have gotten to the individual information of Indian residents. The activity was started by the Service of Gadgets and Data Innovation (MeitY) on the proposal of the Service of Home Undertakings.

Over the most recent couple of years, the public authority had requested to boycott numerous 250 Chinese applications refering to them to be "biased to the sway and uprightness of India, protection of India, security of the state and public request" Applications including TikTok, Xender, PUBG Versatile Shein, Camscanner, Garena Free Fire, among others were prohibited in India as they purportedly accumulated delicate client information and mentioned significant authorizations.

In February, The Service of Gadgets and Data Innovation (MeitY) had additionally disavowed boycott orders on some computerized loaning applications like Kissht, LazyPay, Amigo Advance, Indiabulls Home Credits, and Faircent. Kreditbee and MPokket. The service had given requests to web access suppliers and application stores to unblock a portion of the applications. The choice was taken after the audit meeting with MeitY authorities.

One of the players advised Mint that couple of things government needs to know are - the shade of the cash (fundamentally the VCs backing); the sort of clients they are taking special care of; where the information is getting put away and so forth.