Is PUBG a Chinese app? Are Indians' data secure? Know - Answers to all such questions

Posted on 28th Jul 2020 by rohit kumar

New Delhi: Amid Indo-China tension, the central government has recently banned 106 apps while doing a digital strike on China. After these 59 and 47 apps banned in India, 275 more such apps are also on the government's radar, this list includes the name of the game app PUBG. PubG is one of the most popular Battle Royal games available on mobile smartphones. In such a situation, here we are telling you that PUBG also comes in the category of the Chinese app? Where is its data stored and what are its privacy policies.

 

 

Is PUBG a Chinese app?

The question that most people have in their minds is whether PUBG is a Chinese app? Let us tell you, this is not the PUBG Chinese app. PUBG is a South Korean online video game and the game was created by Bluehole's subsidiary Battleground. This company is from South Korean. PUBG Mobile was released in 2018 on Google Play Store and App Store.

 

 

But China's largest video game publisher, Tencent Games, has bought a stake in Bluehole. The mobile version of PUBG has been developed by Tencent itself. For this reason, when you open PUBG Mobile, the logo of Tencent Games is visible. PUBG's publisher is Bluehole's subsidiary comp Battleground and PUBG Mobile's publisher is Tencent. Bluehole together with Tencent has launched PubG Mobile in China.

 

 

What is a privacy policy

According to the privacy policy of PUBG Mobile, the company's server is in India. The data of the users of India is stored in the server here. Apart from India, the company's servers are also in China, USA and Singapore. Here also the data of users is stored.

 

 

Here the data of users is not completely secure. According to the policy, the company can give the data of PUBG Mobile to any third party. Third-party users can collect and use data. Although the company says that it takes majors for data protection, but there is no guarantee that the data is safe.

 

 

According to a report, 600 million people downloaded PUBG Mobile in the first quarter of 2020. At the same time, in May, PUBG Mobile became the world's highest profitable mobile game with revenue of $ 226 million (about 1.7 thousand crores).

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