PUBG (Player Unknown Battlegrounds) is a game which is most popular among most of the countries especially India. According to the recent activity, the Indian government put a ban on 59 Chinese Apps you know so well. But, now the Indian government is thinking a lot more about security.
Now, India government has a target of 275 more Chinese apps on India's radar and this list also includes PubG and many more. They will examine it on the basis of any violation of national security and privacy of the user. From those apps, 47 apps which are apparently clones of those 59 applications which are banned earlier are banned now. This section majorly includes all the lite applications for those apps.
If you don't know about it then the Indian market for Pubg is the biggest. India accounts for 24% of PUBG's lifetime downloads. It has nearly 175 million users, and Pubg is doing a lot of efforts to save this market as they put the title in the Hindi language on Play Store.
According to a new add-on, it has also updated its privacy policy for India. In the revised privacy policy, PUBG Mobile has stated that the data produced from Indian users will be stored on servers located in India, and it has promised to not be sold off to third parties. If we talk about the information gathered by the app includes open ID, IP address, Device Information (such as battery level, WiFi strength, available space, Country code, Android ID, MAC etc), registration time, login time and some date and time stamps.
If you have noticed that the banned apps are all Chinese but Pubg is not purely or completely Chinese. The actual company who build it is "Bluehole" which is a South-Korean company and the actual promotion, marketing and distribution are done by Tencent which is a Chinese company. It is a collaboration of these two companies which make it runs smoothly.
Why all the banned apps belong to China? The main reason behind this is the laws which govern this that is the National Intelligence Law which was passed in 2017 is not so strict in terms of privacy and data security.
But, this time there is not a flaw in terms of privacy in the game. According to me, there is no such data privacy affection is happening in it so can run smoothly for coming times and if it gets a ban then the reason is not stated as privacy or security. It can be a reason for affection and health issues.
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