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  India's reason for banning TikTok (along with 100s other Chinese apps) was not data privacy. Indian government banned apps like CamScanner and Alibaba and games like PUBG too. Most of which had nothing to do with data security. It was just because India and China governments don't share the best relationship and this was a diplomatic attack.
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  Picturing a bunch of Chinese spies doing TikTok dances is hilarious. >
  
  The app is already on half the phones in America... they don't need better Chinese spies. >
  
  Just what a Chinese spy would say >
  
  We already have the biggest Chinese spies in the country! >
  
  Seems like a job for the US government with all the taxes we pay. >
  
  And quite plausibly other data that the Chinese government could easily take from them if it wanted to. That’s why a lot of people are worried about it and the U.S. government (for example) has tried to restrict it or more. And not just the US: India has banned it along the same reasoning.