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Remove China Apps garners 1 million downloads in India, gets 4.8 stars on Google Play Store 

// Remove China Apps, an app that claims to identify and delete all the Chinese apps has crossed 1 million downloads on Google Play Store

//The app has become increasingly popular on the Play Store owing to the growing friction between India and China.

//The Remove China Apps has been rated 4.8 stars on Google Play Store and it is currently one of the top apps.

//The app went live on Google Play Store on May 17

//TikTok had a bad run on the Play Store recently when it was downvoted to 1 star recently. However, Google got rid of over 8 million negative reviews from the app and the ratings went back to 4.8. A lot of users across the country had also uninstalled the app.

//another short video making platform Mitron... was reportedly designed to take on Bytedance-owned TikTok... was downloaded more than five million times and received 4.8 ratings on Google Play Store.

Full Article: India Today, (01-Jun)

Further reading:
Google pulls ‘Remove China Apps’ from Play Store
https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/02/remove-china-apps-google-play-store/

#Google #India #TikTok #App #BoycottChineseProduct #BoycottMadeInChina
#India #China #App

India Bans 59 High-Risk
Apps, Incidentally Helping to Boost the Business of Local Apps

Tech Analysts Suggest that Tech Development Can Survive without China
 
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China Blocks Didi From App Stores Days After Mega U.S. IPO

China’s cyberspace regulator ordered app stores to remove Didi Chuxing, dealing a major blow to a ride-hailing giant that just days ago pulled off one of the largest U.S. initial public offerings of the past decade.

The Cyberspace Administration of China announced the ban Sunday, citing serious violations on Didi Global Inc.’s collection and usage of personal information, without elaborating. That unusually swift decision came two days after the regulator said it was starting a cybersecurity review of the company.

Source: Bloomberg #Jul04

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-04/china-regulator-orders-didi-to-be-removed-from-app-stores

#China #Didi #App #IPO
China Blocks Didi From App Stores Days After Mega U.S. IPO

China’s cyberspace regulator ordered app stores to remove Didi Chuxing, dealing a major blow to a ride-hailing giant that just days ago pulled off one of the largest U.S. initial public offerings of the past decade.

The Cyberspace Administration of China announced the ban Sunday, citing serious violations on Didi Global Inc.’s collection and usage of personal information, without elaborating. That unusually swift decision came two days after the regulator said it was starting a cybersecurity review of the company.

Source: Bloomberg #Jul04

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-04/china-regulator-orders-didi-to-be-removed-from-app-stores

#China #Didi #App #IPO
Fears over Chinese spying lead to calls for UK ban on DiDi Global ride-hailing app

MPs are calling for a ride-hailing app based in Beijing to be blocked from launching in Britain amid concerns that users’ data will be harvested by Chinese spies.

DiDi Global has obtained its first licences to operate in Salford, Sheffield, Wolverhampton and Manchester. It is expected to seek further licences as it competes for market share with Uber, the American taxi app.

A group of cross-party MPs fear that China’s national security laws could be used to require DiDi to hand over data if asked for it by Beijing. The National Intelligence Law from 2017 requires all Chinese companies to “support, co-operate with and collaborate in national intelligence work”.

Source: The Times #Aug09

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fears-over-chinese-spying-lead-to-calls-for-uk-ban-on-didi-global-ride-hailing-app-mzbkxqmk7

#DiDi #App #Uber #Salford #Sheffield #Wolverhampton #Manchester
Funny how people like to focus on the persecution of Muslims when Bible apps have also been taken down, meaning that Christians are persecuted too. But they get ignored, even though Christians are the most persecuted group in the wold today. https://publielectoral.lat/internationalfccp/13316
A #US Federal Communications commissioner pushes #Apple and #Google to remove #TikTok from their app stores

In a letter to the companies released on Tuesday, Jine 29, 2022, #BrendanCarr, a Republican commissioner, said he believed that “TikTok’s pattern of conduct and misrepresentations regarding the unfettered access that persons in Beijing have to sensitive U.S. user data” violated Apple’s and Google’s standards and that TikTok should be taken out of the app stores...

The Biden administration has considered other measures to keep American data away from China but has not publicly pushed TikTok to cut ties with its Chinese owner.

TikTok has maintained that it is taking steps to keep employees in China from gaining access to its data. Shortly before a recent news report revealed it was struggling to do so, it said it was routing all data from its U.S. users through servers controlled by Oracle.//

Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/29/technology/apple-google-tiktok.html

Source: New York Times #Jun29

#CyberSecurity #DataSecurity #App #MadeinChina
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A software engineer and his fiancee were given long-term #Prison sentences by the #CCP over an #App they developed to help people in China gain access to information that is blocked by the regime.

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