India To Ban 54 Chinese Apps including Garena Free Fire, Massive Crackdown On China

Mani Verma February 14, 2022

India To Ban 54 Chinese Apps, Massive Crackdown On China

New Delhi – The Government of India, we’ve been told is going to be banning 54 additional Chinese apps that are suspected of posing a security threat to India. These 54 Chinese apps include something called Garena Free Fire Game, an equalizer, a bass booster, a cam card, something called Viva video editor, Tencent Reverb, apologue, and Dual Space Lite.

A lot of these apps that you know, we download for small matters, but we don’t pay attention to what permissions we’re giving away. You know, more than 18 months since the first series of App bans happened in this country.

Soon, it will be announced that it is going to be official. This we are getting from our sources in government, where they are saying that how all of these Chinese applications that are there beat sweet selfie HD, beauty camera, selfie camera, equalizer, bass booster, cam card, and several others who are a somewhere opposing threat to the sovereignty and security of the country, especially the security of the country.

Full list of banned Chinese Apps in India

Garena Free Fire – Illuminate
Volume Booster – Loud Speaker & Sound Booster
Music Player – MP Player
CamCard for SalesForce Ent
Isoland : Ashes of Time Lite
Rise of Kingdoms: Lost Crusade
UU Game Booster-network solution for high ping
Extraordinary Ones
Badlanders
Stick Fight: The Game Mobile
Twilight Pioneers
CuteU: Match With The World
Small World-Enjoy groupchat and video chat
CuteU Pro
FancvU – Video Chat & Meetup
Real: Go Live. Make Friends
MoonChat: Enjoy Video Chats
Real Lite -video to live!
IS/APUS Security HD (Pad Version)
Parallel Space Lite Support
Viva Video Editor – Snack Video Maker with Music
Nice video baidu
Tencent Xriver
Onmyoji Chess
Onmyoji Arena
AppLock
Dual Space Lite – Multiple Accounts & Clone App
Dual Space Pro – Multiple Accounts & App Cloner
DualSpace Lite – Bit Support
Dual Space – Bit Support
Dual Space – Bit Support
Dual Space Pro – Bit Support
Conquer Online – MMORPG Game
Conquer Online Il
Live Weather & Radar – Alerts
Notes- Color Notepad, Notebook
Beauty Camera: Sweet Selfie HD
Beauty Camera – Selfie Camera
Equalizer – Bass Booster & Volume EQ & Virtualizer
Music Player- Music.Mp Player
Equalizer & Bass Booster – Music Volume EQ
Music Plus – MP Player
Equalizer Pro – Volume Booster & Bass Booster
Video Player Media All Format
Music Player – Equalizer & MP
MP Cutter – Ringtone Maker & Audio Cutter
Voice Recorder & Voice Changer
Barcode Scanner – QR Code Scan
Lica Cam – selfie camera app
EVE Echoes
Astracraft
Wink: Connect Now
FunChat Meet People Around You
FancyU pro – Instant Meetup through Video chat!

And that’s the reason why this particular call has been called for banning of these applications, we all very well know that it was some in June, last year when 59 applications, mobile applications were banned. Later in September, there were more than 118 Chinese applications that were on the list. And now this is the new list of 54 applications that are gonna be banned soon. Looking at the security of the countries what we understand.

Okay, now the principal problem with, of course, these apps is that the suspicion lies on the data gathering the premise of the app is something very simple, okay. It’s a simple game, or it’s a simple user application. And the data gathering, the apps are doing far beyond the requirement for the app.

Now a lot of these are pervasive, you ban one five more pop up, okay. And the data is then going to Chinese servers, and God knows what it’s been used for. None of us pay as much attention as we should to all the permissions we give to our apps. And some of the apps only work if you give them all the permissions the microphone permission, SMS, call records, call data, contact list, location data.

India Banned 54 Chinese Apps banned

So what you’re saying who you’re saying it to who you’re texting, who you’re talking to where you are, potentially all this information can be gathered. Now there’s a problem when governments gather them, there’s an equal problem when potential enemy countries gather them.

So on regular basis, there is a review of all of these applications. As I was mentioned in June, we had already seen last year, where all mobile applications like Tiktok, WeChat, and others were banned by the government looking at security purposes.

Then later on in September, we had seen that more in hundreds of applications were banned. China has gone ahead and has not accepted or rather has somewhere protested against India’s call about this particular Chinese App ban and application. We also have a kind of call from their side that opposes this particular decision.

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They have said that this is a non-discriminatory principle that such kind of call has been taken. While that’s a version of China during last September month when the other applications were banned. This time around there are more in numbers of the 50s when these have applications will be in the list which will be banned.

And as you very correctly pointed out. These have applications that are several pop-ups come up. And we may never know what it is at what depth until what level of information is getting circulated to the countries or to the countries that are posing danger or the threat to us.

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