Express VPN Surfshark Shuts Down India Servers: VPN service providers SurfShark and Express VPN have decided to shut down their servers in India. This news came out following the new guidelines released by the Ministry of Electronics and Infirmation Technology. The new guidelines make VPN service providers store their users’ data for a specific period but this is against VPN providers’ privacy system. That is why renowned proxy service providers known as Express VPN and SurfShark have decided to shut down the India server soon. Since this news has come out people who often use this proxy service and habitual use banned websites by changing their IP address with the help of VPN providers. Now various questions are being asked by VPN users, so we have decided to cover this story comprehensibly. In the following sections, readers will get to learn what the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said. Follow More Update On GetIndiaNews.com
Now it is seeming that VPN service providers like SufShark and Express VPN are not in the mood to stand with India in the fight against proxy services and piracy. Recently, the cybersecurity laws were introduced by the cyber security agency of India known as CERT-In. Since CERT-In introduced new guidelines many VPN service providers have decided to take down India servers. Keep reading to fetch more about the guidelines introduced for VPN service providers.
According to the new guidelines, VPN service providers are compelled to store the data of the user who used VPN service and users’ data will have to store at least for 5 years. however, the time period of storing data can be increased. It has been more than a month since the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology released guidelines for VPN service providers. CERT-In issued guidelines on 26th April 2022, CERT-In made VPN service providers compel to keep data of users such as user’s name, email id, the time period which they used VPN service, time stamps, IP address allotted to the user, and many more.
According to a wing of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, these details have to be kept by service providers for a minimum of five years. Now VPN service providers have decided to oppose this development while the government claims that the data of users will help in cybercrime. But revealing users’ personal details is against VPN service providers’ rules. Stay tuned to this page for more information and details.
