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The government has asked 21 smartphone manufacturers — the majority of them from China — to share the security practices and architecture they follow while making devices, in a bid to strengthen and secure cyberspace and digital infrastructure in the country.
The move by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology comes against the backdrop of a military stand-off between India and China in Doklam.
According to sources in the ministry, the government is concerned about data security as most of the Chinese firms making smartphones in India have their servers in China, which make the data more vulnerable to
