India banned a Chinese app four years ago. Government agencies are still using it https://restofworld.org/2024/india-banned-camscanner-government-agencies/ The Election Commission is not the only Indian government-adjacent entity still using this banned scanning app. Rest of World found 30 other instances of documents uploaded by government departments and ministries that were scanned with CamScanner .
the Indian government has not clearly communicated to the public why it has banned the app. Raman Jit Singh Chima, Asia Pacific policy director and senior international counsel at Access Now says.. “The CamScanner blocking was a political action and less a cybersecurity one, Most experts agree that bans aren’t the best way to protect national security, especially when they target tech from a single nation of origin. “The way to go forward is to have policies in place that all companies, all applications have to follow,” Rajmohan said, adding that India needs to have robust national cyber security policy and data protection laws that foreign and domestic firms must comply with.