In the midst of raising border tensions, the Indian
government has banned 59 originating from China under Section 69A of the
Information and Technology Act, 2000. Zhao Lijian has expressed China’s concern
over the issue. The spokesperson added that their government always asks
Chinese businesses to abide by international and local law regulations and also
exclaimed, ‘Indian government has a responsibility to uphold the legal rights
of international investors including Chinese ones.’
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology of
India has exposed that it had received complaints reporting misuse of some
mobile applications, looting and transmitting user information in an unauthorized
manner to servers outside the country. The ministry’s statement expressed its
deep and immediate concern over the issue. India has been an untapped market
for most of the Chinese applications.
Indian users have spent over 5.5 billion hours in 2019 on
TikTok, the application that once went through ban by the Madras High Court.
Revisiting the reason stated by the ministry, data mining has been an
intolerable offense in this internet world. As we notice, our feeds and
recommendations on social media networks are prompted based on our user
information and searches. Companies like Google and Facebook have met cases on
user data collection and others in preceding times. Have we ever wondered how
advertisements are pitched through social media networks?
Are we aware that many companies including Coca-Cola have
joined Facebook ad boycott in the U.S.? The movement called #StopHateforProfit
has been calling not to advertise on Facebook’s services in July. We tend to
keep our social media accounts highly updated without realizing the effects.
Though we assume we have kept things private on our account, our privacy has
already been interrupted.
High time we draw a line!
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