India Cements Ban on TikTok, Other Chinese Apps

India has permanently banned a number of apps backed by some of China’s top internet companies, the country’s media reported on Tuesday, formalizing a temporary measure that was taken last year over privacy and national security concerns.

The group of banned apps had initially been accused of engaging in activities detrimental to India’s sovereignty, integrity and defense of the country, along with “stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users’ data in an unauthorized manner to servers which have locations outside India.”