Banned Chinese apps may shift servers to India

TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi/ Some of the Chinese apps banned by the Indian government citing them to be a security threat are weighing the option of shifting their data servers to India to allay concerns.

The Indian authorities feared that these apps were transferring consumer data to locations outside the country, especially China, in an unauthorised and surreptitious manner. With servers in India, the data of local consumers would be stored in the country.

The proposal is important because all the 59 app companies have been given an opportunity to present their point of view of the order in the next few days. The government committee that will hear these companies will have members from the ministry of electronics and information technology and the ministry of law and justice, as well as top officials from the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT).