The Mitron app has been within the news for all the incorrect reasons lately. The app owner Shibank Agarwal, a student of IIT Roorkee, bought the ASCII text file of the app from a Pakistani coding company Qboxus and rebranded the app as Mitron and launched in India. Before officially launching the app in India Agarwal and his team didn’t even customize the coding or change the privacy policy.
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Irfan Sheikh of Qboxus from Lahore confirmed to IndianExpress that Agarwal did reach bent the corporate buy the ASCII text file of TicTic and launch as Mitron in India. He also accepted the very fact that the “Mitron app has privacy issues because the app developer has not uploaded the privacy policy.” Sheikh, however, said that the corporate doesn’t encourage their buyers to only put it out there for the public to use it because it is. ..
If you have the Mitron app installed on your phone, we recommend uninstalling it directly and not using it. We checked the Mitron app and located there’s no way you’ll delete your account from the app. Users can either sign off of the app or just uninstall it. The settings menu is additionally missing on the app now. ..
We recommend you watch out for all the clones of Mitron available on Google Play store. You want to always check the developer first before installing an app on your smartphone.
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