Isn’t Iran confirming the risk of using such applications due to data leakage/harvesting? What was big brother in the 60’s is glued to your hand or even forehead now.
Sounds like the TikTok ban a la Russe - a local tech giant using national security as a pretext to ban foreign-based competitors.
> Possibly Telegram
Russia tried this from 2018 to 2020 and it didn't really work. Is there any reason to believe that they would succeed now?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Telegram_in_Russia