If you want to hide users, pull out of India: Govt to VPN providers
Financial Express Mumbai|May 19, 2022
ON THE GOVERNMENT Wednesday asserted that the new CERT-In directives have to be followed by everybody, be it virtual private network (VPN) service providers, cloud service providers or others, and in case anyone does not want to abide by the rules, they are free to pull out from the country.
If you want to hide users, pull out of India: Govt to VPN providers

The stern warning from the government came after a few VPN service providers threatened to leave the country in the wake of the new rules, which mandates storing data of users for a period of five years.

"There is no opportunity for somebody to say we will not follow the laws and rules of India. If you don't have the logs, start maintaining the logs. If you're a VPN that wants to hide and be anonymous about those who use VPNs and you don't want to go by these rules, then if you want to pull out from the country, frankly, that is the only opportunity you will have. You will have to pull out," minister of state for electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar told reporters while releasing frequently asked questions (FAQs) regarding the rules.

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