India Orders VPN Companies to Collect and Hand Over User Data

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Most VPN companies don't have any office or employees in India, who are they going to arrest. They will just block their website, the companies will just use alternative domain names for India and the same circle will continue
 
And, in all case, CERT-in will require the companies to report on their users' "unauthorized access to social media accounts."
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Maybe because of the guy that sent bomb threat to the Indian navy few months ago he used mullavad VPN so police unable to trace him.
 
no one would use VPN services if they are storing user activity data and providing to government on demand. the whole idea negates the purpose of vpn services. so yeah, this is not going to happen. companies would just avoid india as they avoid certain other countries. users would have to find ways to connect to these services like they do in certain other countries. this is the same thing with end to end encryption. if the encryption can be bypassed to comply with government demands for data even in case of terrorist attacks, it is not really end to end encrypted.
 
No VPN company will comply with this as it defeats the purpose of the VPN. Also these companies don't operate in India. What can happen is they force India based server/node providers to do this. Workaround is to just use another server overseas. Also, check the warrant canary on the VPN websites.

If this becomes problematic there's a distinct possibility of VPNs being banned. You know how India works with the age old "If you can't control it, ban it" mentality. This case will go to court as privacy advocates will not stay silent.
 
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