Context :
Govt
issues order to ban 54 Chinese apps /
ET / 14 Feb 2022
Extract :
The union government has issued fresh orders to ban over 54 Chinese apps,
terming them a threat to privacy and security of Indians, officials aware of
the development told us.
New avatars:
Many of these
apps belong to large Chinese tech firms such as Tencent, Alibaba and gaming
firm NetEase, and are “rebranded or rechristened avatars” of apps that have
been banned in India since 2020.
|
The
ministry of electronics and IT issued the latest ban order on the grounds
that these apps were transferring sensitive data of Indians to servers in
foreign countries such as China. |
|
It has also
directed top app stores including Google’s Play Store to block these
applications. “The 54 apps have already been blocked in India on the Play
Store,” an official said. |
|
Meity used
its powers under the Section 69a of the Information Technology Act, 2000 to
enforce the order. |
224 apps banned:
Since June
2020, the government has banned a total of around 224 Chinese apps.
|
The first
round of bans covered 59 apps including popular applications such as TikTok,
Shareit, WeChat, Helo, Likee, UC News, Bigo Live, UC Browser, ES File
Explorer, and Mi Community. |
|
In
November, another 43 Chinese apps were banned, including Snack Video,
AliExpress and AliPay Cashier. |
|
In
September, the government banned another 118 apps. |
MY TAKE :
Sundar
Pichai : Google don’t need Cookies …………………..[ 06 Feb 2022 ]
Extract :
ON WEBSITES :
98 % …. Websites have at least one tracker embedded
21 ……….Third Party Trackers are embedded in a website on an average. Out of
these, 8 are Third Party
98 %.......Websites’ embedded 3rd parties
were involved in Advertising & Tracking
REMARKS :
Ø The number of Android apps accessing camera and microphone permissions in
smartphones, has increased
last 5 years, revealed a study by data security and privacy firm ARRKA
Ø It comprised 201 mobile apps and websites and included 100 Indian
Organizations, across 25 industries
Ø The
firm has been tracking these for the last 5 years and found that :
# Google is the SINGLE LARGEST third party with whom data is being
shared,
# followed by
Facebook
Ø Google’s trackers are present in 97 % websites and Facebook’s trackers in
55 % websites
Ø Around 42 % Android
Apps share data with
Google and 25 % with
Facebook
Replace
Locally : Displace Globally ……………………………….. [ 02 July 2020 ]
Extract
:
Let us think BIG . Let us expand our
HORIZON
Even as we go about developing /
launching India-made Apps to REPLACE those
Chinese Apps, locally, our goal should be to DISPLACE them,
globally !
That thought made me send following
email yesterday :
===================================================
" MADE IN INDIA "
APPS
Sent :
Thu 02-Jul-20 10:51 AM
To :
'rsprasad.bjp@gmail.com';
'ravis@sansad.nic.in'; 'moc-office@gov.in'; 'ravishankarprasad@gov.in'
cc :
nandan@nandannilekani.in; nandan_mn@infosys.com;
'delhi@nasscom.in'; 'debjani@nasscom.in'
Dear Shri Prasadji,
Most of those 59 Chinese Apps you banned, are in
respect of :
Ø Video –based Entertainment
Ø Social Get-together
Ø Messaging – Chatting – Status Posting …etc
I am not aware if any of these are in
the nature of,
Ø Providing online “ Govt
Services “ to citizen ( like UMANG )
Ø Help people get JOB-ALERTS
/ APPLY ONLINE from their mobiles
Ø Attend to Citizen Complaints and give feedback on progress of “ Complaint
Solution
Ø Simplify Social-Economic-Political processes……..etc
Ï urge you to take a look at the (
proposed ) APPS listed below- then advise the Indian Startups re the priorities
:
An App for
Everything ?
[
18 Aug 2017
]
Without doubt, when launched, many of these will get adopted by developing
countries around the World – countries which are facing problems very similar to
our own
Here is our opportunity to replace those “ Non-utilitarian Chinese Apps “, not
only in India, but in 80 % of the countries of the World
With Regards,
Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 14
Feb 2022
