PUBG Ban: Government Bans 118 Chinese Apps and Games Including PUBG Mobile, Apus Launcher and Rules of Survival
PUBG Mobile, Apus Launcher, Rules of Survival, and a hundred and fifteen different Chinese apps and video games were banned in India. The new app ban comes only a little over a month after the authorities imposed a ban on forty seven Chinese apps that accompanied the blocking off of TikTok and fifty eight different apps withinside the country. The ban has been imposed through the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) beneathneath the provisions of the Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking of Access of Information through Public) Rules 2009. The apps banned through the authorities are claimed to be “prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity” of the country.
According to ANI
The IT Ministry released a press declaration on Wednesday to announce the today’s Chinese apps ban withinside the country like PUBG Ban. The declaration stated that the ban become imposed after receiving “many proceedings from diverse reassets which includes numerous reviews approximately misuse of a few cell apps to be had on Android and iOS structures for stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users’ facts in an unauthorised way to servers that have places outdoor India.”
“The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre, Ministry of Home Affairs has additionally despatched an exhaustive advice for blocking off those malicious apps. Likewise, there were comparable bipartisan concerns, flagged through diverse public representatives, each outdoor and in the Parliament of India,” the declaration added.
