“Follow the rules or leave India”: Government bluntly to VPN service providers
Such virtual private network (VPN) service providers, who are not ready to comply with the new guidelines, have the option of exiting India. Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajiv Chandrashekhar said this while releasing the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) regarding incidents of cyber crime on Wednesday. He said that every good company or organization understands that a secure and reliable internet will help them.
Chandrashekhar said, “Nobody has any option to say that we will not follow the rules and laws of India. If you don’t have logs, start saving logs. If you are a VPN that wants to hide and keep users anonymous, and if you do not want to comply with the laws and if you want to go out, then you have no other way but to get out. ”
Significantly, the Ministry of Electronics and IT has made it mandatory for cloud service providers, VPN firms, data center companies and virtual private server providers to protect users’ data for at least five years. Some VPN companies have claimed That the new rule could lead to cyber security-related loopholes in the system. However, this argument was rejected by the minister.
