User Data Collection mandatory for VPNs

Share Us

566
User Data Collection mandatory for VPNs
05 May 2022
7 min read

News Synopsis

The Government of India has come up with a new IT policy that needs virtual private network companies (VPNs) to gather and store the data of the customers and maintain it for at least five years or more. This new directive has been issued by the Computer Emergency Response Team, CERT-in. The new policy will come into effect in late June 2022. The directives by the CERT state that VPN companies will have to store information of the users even after they remove their account or terminate their subscription. This data includes user names, IP addresses, usage patterns, and other forms of identifiable information.

According to the Ministry of Electronics and IT, the new policy plans to effectively tackle the gaps that obstruct the government in responding to specific cybercrime incidents. One of the major reasons to use a VPN is to keep your IP address private. It enables customers to remain protected from website trackers that track user data and location. Paid VPN also offers a no-logging policy that gives full privacy as it operates on RAM-only serves. With the new guidelines by the government, VPN companies will be compelled to store servers allowing them to log in user data and store it for five years or more.

You May Like

TWN Special