Indian Intelligence Bureau calls out smartphone apps sending data to China

[Redaktion]

The Indian Intelligence Bureau has directed its border troops to format their smartphones and delete a number of specified apps, citing the reason as a discovered data trail leading from these apps to China.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Indian-Intelligence-Bureau-calls-out-smartphone-apps-sending-data-to-China.267714.0.html

[Craig Ward]

A few of the entries I didn't find so surprising (e.g. UC Browser, Weibo etc), but there are some quite surprising applications showing up.

In particular the Xiaomi apps and Clean Master, which are either pre-installed on Xiaomi phones, and in the case of Clean Master it used to come on some other manufacturers devices. However, I was most surprised about ES File Explorer, but I suppose this does just add another thing to complain about in the downward spiral of what was once a great app.