India launches crackdown against these VPN service providers
The Indian government thrashed out new cybersecurity rules and will take action against the cloud service providers as well as VPN operators who will fail to comply with them. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the minister of state for electronics and IT has made clear that those Virtual Private Network or VPN (Virtual Private Network) service providers not ready to follow the new guidelines will have only one option ahead of them - to exit from India!
While releasing FAQs on the current regulation on reporting cyber breach cases, the IT minister stated that "any well-intentioned firm or entity recognises that a safe and reliable internet will help it." He suggested that cloud service providers, VPN firms, data centre companies, and virtual private server providers must maintain users' data for at least five years, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology mentioned. Also Read: SBI customer ALERT: Government warns of fake SBI SMS threat - Did you get it?
"There is no opportunity for somebody to say we will not follow the rules and laws of India. If you don't have the logs, start maintaining the logs. If you are a VPN that wants to hide and be anonymous about those who use its VPN and you don't want to go by these rules, if you want to pull out, then frankly you have no other opportunity but to pull out," PTI report quoted the IT minister Chandrasekhar. Also Read: Stay Alert! Google Chats will now protect you THIS way
According to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, popularly known as CERT-In, VPN providers in India must now keep names, addresses, contact numbers, subscription period, email addresses, IP addresses, as well as the client's reason for using their services. These new rules will take into effect at the
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