{"id":28024,"date":"2022-02-14T11:37:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T11:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/free-fire-banned-india-security-threat"},"modified":"2024-07-19T12:05:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T12:05:47","slug":"free-fire-banned-india-security-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/free-fire-banned-india-security-threat","title":{"rendered":"Garena Free Fire Banned in India for posing security threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

The government of India recently released a list of more than 50 mobile apps that have been banned, including Garena Free Fire<\/a>, one of the most popular battle royale mobile games.<\/p>\n

Accordingly, Free Fire was removed from the Google Play Store and App Store as of 12th February 2022. This latest announcement comes after another major mobile gaming title, PUBG: Mobile was banned in India<\/a> in October 2020.<\/p>\n

India bans Garena Free Fire and 53 other games<\/h2>\n

Initially, players were confused about the Indian government’s aggressive response. However, on Monday 14th February, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology explained that they invoked the ban under “Section 69a of the Information Technology Act.”<\/p>\n

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Free Fire was already removed from the app markets a few days before the official announcement. (Picture: Garena)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to the act, the government has the “Power to issue directions for interception or monitoring or decryption of any information through any computer resource.”<\/p>\n

Per a statement issued by the Indian government, “These 54 apps allegedly obtain various critical permissions and collects sensitive user data. These collected real-time data are being misused and transmitted to servers located in [a] hostile country.”<\/p>\n

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#ETNOWExclusive<\/a> | Garena Free Fire banned! Here’s the full list of the 54 banned #Chinese<\/a> apps 👇@NayantaraRai<\/a>@AshwiniVaishnaw<\/a>@Rajeev_GoI<\/a>@GoI_MeitY<\/a>@PMOIndia<\/a>#FreeFire<\/a>pic.twitter.com\/7HzYISp52H<\/a><\/p>\n

— ET NOW (@ETNOWlive) February 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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