Government asks GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat over security concerns

Bluetooth messaging application Bitchat, extensively used by protesting students during the ongoing NEET paper leak agitation amid internet curbs, was on Friday sent a removal notice by the government.

Home ministry’s cybercrime arm, the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C), has ordered Microsoft subsidiary GitHub to remove Bitchat, according to the notice received by it.