However, some employees were still using the app, as a report in Gadegets360. CamScanner had come under government’s radar in 2020 as well, when it had banned the app as part of its move to restrict China-based mobile applications. Government employees have also been asked to not ‘jailbreak’ or ‘root’ their mobiles or make use of any external mobile app-based scanner services like CamScanner to scan “internal government documents”. It has also ordered them to refrain from using 'unauthorised remote administration tools' such as AnyDesk, TeamViewer, and Ammyy Admin, among others. The directive also asked employees to not use third-party anonymisation services and VPNs such as NordVPN, Tor, ExpressVPN, and proxies.

The move comes just weeks after the Centre announced a policy that directed VPN service providers and data centre companies to store user data for up to five years.Īs per an Economic Times report, the directive asked employees to not save ““any internal, restricted or confidential government data files on any non-government cloud service such as Google Drive or Dropbox.” The order passed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) has been approved by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) for improving the “security posture” of the government. The Central government has barred employees from using virtual private networks (VPN) as well as third-party non-government platforms such as Google Drive and Dropbox.

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