‘Cutting China ties may not necessarily mean ban reversal for PUBG, other apps’

Even as the PUBG Corp, the parent firm of popular battle royale game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), has snapped ties with Chinese tech giant Tencent in an effort to try and make its comeback to India, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has hinted that just a change in the ownership off the app would not lead to reversal on the ban anytime in near future.

“The ownership of the app is obviously one of the issues. But that is not the only issue. There are about 70 issues to be dealt with, including how and where the data of the users was stored, how it was being processed and whether there have been any known breaches of sensitive personal information,” a senior official from the Ministry said.