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Companies say Apple removed their privacy apps from China

Companies that let people avoid the government filters said Saturday that their programs have been removed from Apple's app store in China.

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Companies say Apple removed their privacy apps from China
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China appears to have succeeded in eliminating software programmes that enable its people to view an uncensored internet.

Companies that let people avoid the government filters said Saturday that their programs have been removed from Apple's app store in China.

ExpressVPN, one of the companies, posted on its corporate site a message from Apple saying that its program was illegal in China. The British Virgin Islands-based software company says that all major virtual-private network apps were removed from the Apple app store in China. ExpressVPN claimed Apple was "aiding China's censorship effort."

Star VPN, another company, said it also received notice of being removed.

Apple said in a statement that China began requiring this year that developers of virtual-private networks have a government license. The Califronia-based tech giant said it had removed apps "in China that do not meet the new regulations."

 

(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)

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