Those who follow the world of technology will surely know how India is on this period war footing with China regarding the smartphones. In particular, in short, the first country is trying to boycott Chinese products including smartphones for management of the data used on the same devices. Despite a part of the world close to technology like many Indian influencers and bloggers (one of all Mukul sharma) disagrees with this choice, the other party supports the government's decision ban some Chinese apps, including those of Xiaomi. Let's see in detail what is going on.
After the privacy issues raised by Forbes, India has also decided to move against Xiaomi: some apps will probably be banned
If initially this storm affected Chinese products in general, some companies in the last few hours are specifically having problems with the high plans of the Indian government. L'intelligence in fact the country would have warned several applications of numerous brands because they are accused of not acting transparently with regards to data management, privacy and tracking. I'm 52 Chinese applications targeted and as you may have guessed some are also from Xiaomi.
The apps owned by Xiaomi that have been accused are Mi Community, We Store, and Video call me-Xiaomi. A senior Indian government official said the intelligence agency's recommendation ban these applications was recently supported by the Secretariat of the National Security Council, who believes that these could be harmful to India's security. The security we are talking about refers to sending sensitive data to servers outside India. A little 'what our company was accused of when it was put under pressure byForbes investigation.
Recall that a few days after the burst of this bubble appeared on the PlayStore Google an application called "Boycott Chinese applications”In response to the alleged illegality of the apps in question. In any case, the investigations are ongoing and not only concern Xiaomi but also other giants like TikTok, Zoom, SHAREit e clean master. As we said earlier, many tech-related figures are not very supportive of this type of lawsuit against certain companies. We also think it's an exaggerated move: try to imagine India without Xiaomi products ... or vice versa maybe. What would be the economic consequences?
Source | Hindustan Times
