Apple removes Bitchat from India app store
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Government of India officially removes Bitchat from the App Store," the app's developer and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey wrote in his post, alongside a screenshot that appeared to be a notice from Apple's App Review team
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New Delhi: Apple has officially removed the offline messaging application, Bitchat, from its India App Store after a demand from the country's Information Technology ministry, Jack Dorsey said in an X post.
Government of India officially removes Bitchat from the App Store," the app's developer and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey wrote in his post, alongside a screenshot that appeared to be a notice from Apple's App Review team. Bitchat, built by Dorsey, had also come under government scrutiny in July this year when the Home Ministry's cybercrime arm, the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre, ordered GitHub to remove the Bluetooth-based messaging application.
Dorsey tagged Apple's latest notice in his post. In the notice, Apple said the app would be removed 'per demand from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)' and because 'it includes content that is illegal in India'.
