Apps

The ministry further added there were security concerns associated with these apps that they could carry out surveillance activities and espionage by accessing camera/mic, GPS location and could indulge in malicious network activity.

In February 2021, OpIndia reported an alleged iPhone scam in which a person identified as Neel Patel, alias Hitesh Patel was involved.

On February 15, 2021, Nishant Singh and Abhimanyu Srana came up with a thread alleging that one Twitter user Neel Patel alias Hitesh Patel has been scamming people for more than 15 years.

Tencent becomes one of the biggest losers alongside China's ByteDance, whose flagship product TikTok was banned by India earlier.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology claimed that the 118 apps, which have been banned, were engaged in activities prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of the state and public order

Pakistan bans Tinder, Grindr, SayHi, Tagged and Skout for failure of the apps to moderate content in accordance with Pakistani laws

India decided to ban 59 Chinese apps, including Tiktok, for engaging in subversive activities that posed a threat to country's sovereignty and integrity

Intelligence agencies claim that the Chinese mobile apps are not safe and are extracting a large amount of data outside India.

While Zoom was headquartered in the United States, and listed on the NASDAQ, the mainline Zoom app appears to be developed by three companies in China

Facebook's bad record of protecting users added another red mark when FT reported that Governments are targeting human rights activists trying to hack their phones using a Malicious program developed by Israeli firm NSO group. Whatsapp competitor Telegram's founder Pavel Durov penned a detailed eye-opening note on the incidence