Regardless of personal privacy issues with numerous apps, connecting them to nationwide security concerns is puerile

These include the popular video-sharing social networking app TikTok, a mobile internet browser called UC Web browser, and a file-sharing app called SHAREit. Explaining the ban, the Ministry of Electronic Devices and Info Innovation cited “the emergent nature of threats” presented by the apps and “details available” that they are engaged in activities “prejudicial to sovereignty and stability of