Smartphone makers and creators of internet browsers have become the latest Chinese companies to find themselves the subject of scrutiny by the Indian government, with New Delhi insisting they prove they are keeping customer data safe.
Indian officials have demanded that smartphone makers, predominantly Chinese, co-operate with a security audit to check whether the data they have on Indian users is secure.
One official said 30 companies in total had been asked to provide information to investigators, one of which is the Alibaba-owned browser UCWeb, which has more than 100m monthly active users in India, claiming a 57 per cent market share.