India bans another 43 Chinese apps as border tensions along LAC continue to simmer

Nov 24, 2020, 17:32 IST

India bans another 43 Chinese apps from operating in India, including AliExpressBCCL

India has banned another 43 chinese apps from the country in the name of data privacy and security.
The list mostly consists of dating apps that pose the risk of ‘honey trapping’ officials or soldiers.
It also bans the online shopping application AlibabaExpress.

As tensions between India and China continue to simmer, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has banned another Chinese 43 apps from India.

This is the third such list that the government has issued in which no direct mention has been made to China or the app’s origins, but the list still exclusively consists of Chinese mobile apps.

Notable names that have been featured on the list are the e-commerce company AliExpress, Snack Video — which had been gaining popularity after the ban of TikTok — and Alibaba Workbench.

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However, more notably, out of the 43 apps that India has chosen to ban, 15 are dating apps.

Here’s the full list of Chinese apps banned in India on November 24: