UC browser to be banned in India after alleged data leaks.Read to know why and what you should do?
The tensions between India and china are on an all time high recently.During such hard times this allegation might make things difficult for UC browser in India, which is one of the if not biggest financial market for UC after its parent nation China.
The browser has been accused of having a very inappropriate extent of access and permissions which is said to be exploited by the browser to gain information of the users.The Indian government is said to be monitoring the app and if the accusations are true the App will definitely face a ban in India.
According to the reports from the Ministry of Electronics and Telecommunications,there have been complaints claiming that the browser has been accessing their data and sending it onto the chinese servers.The security flaws in the browser were first reported by The University of Toronto now the flaws are being looked into by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) based in Hyderabad.
The C-DAC team is reviewing the reports that were made in the University of Toronto stating that there were a number of security and privacy vulnerabilities in the browser which could easily anke its users exposed to surveillance an other privacy violations.
Unique device and user identifying data like IMEI and IMSI besides the user location every time the browser is used via a WiFi connection are sent over to a remote chinese server.Thus making the user extremely vulnerable to surveillance.
This is how the data leaks take place.
The officials of the UC browser seem to be very confident about the level of security that they claim to provide and are in absolute denial to any such allegations stating that these claims are baseless and are only made to hamper the progress that UC has been enjoying in India.
“At UC Web, we take security and privacy very seriously and work hard to comply with local regulations of each region we operate in… We have strong measures in place to encrypt the data while we transmit it,” the spokesperson for the company said.
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| Source:Trak.in |
The browser has been accused of having a very inappropriate extent of access and permissions which is said to be exploited by the browser to gain information of the users.The Indian government is said to be monitoring the app and if the accusations are true the App will definitely face a ban in India.
According to the reports from the Ministry of Electronics and Telecommunications,there have been complaints claiming that the browser has been accessing their data and sending it onto the chinese servers.The security flaws in the browser were first reported by The University of Toronto now the flaws are being looked into by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) based in Hyderabad.
The C-DAC team is reviewing the reports that were made in the University of Toronto stating that there were a number of security and privacy vulnerabilities in the browser which could easily anke its users exposed to surveillance an other privacy violations.
Unique device and user identifying data like IMEI and IMSI besides the user location every time the browser is used via a WiFi connection are sent over to a remote chinese server.Thus making the user extremely vulnerable to surveillance.
This is how the data leaks take place.
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The officials of the UC browser seem to be very confident about the level of security that they claim to provide and are in absolute denial to any such allegations stating that these claims are baseless and are only made to hamper the progress that UC has been enjoying in India.
“At UC Web, we take security and privacy very seriously and work hard to comply with local regulations of each region we operate in… We have strong measures in place to encrypt the data while we transmit it,” the spokesperson for the company said.
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| source: news4c.com |
UC Browser is a mobile web browser developed by the Chinese Internet company UCWeb. It is owned by the Alibaba Group. It is available for Android, iOS and Windows devices. It has crossed 500 million users globally.
Interestingly, UC Browser is the second most used web browser in India after Google Chrome. It claims to have over 100 million monthly active users in India.
PS: We would not ask you to uninstall any app as such we are have only put the facts out there for you to make your own decision.
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