Letter to BS: Good call by govt to ban Tik Tok, other Chinese apps

The digital strike by the government of India, banning Tik Tok, SHAREit, UC Browser and 56 other Chinese apps is a good call. This is more of a privacy-breach concern of our citizens than a re­sponse to India-China military clashes. Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, empowers the government to blo­ck any content in the interest of the defence of the country. Some of these apps were allegedly ex­ploiting information. 

Having said that, app bans are notoriously ha­rd to execute. Usually app firms upload their official versions on Apple App Store and Google Play Store, and even after these