A new rule would force VPN companies to collect and protect a wide range of data on their customers for a period of five years.
The country’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), which oversees the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, issued a new set of guidelines in an effort to coordinate emergency measures along with response activities with respect to cyber security incidents Is. ENTRAKR reported.
The report also states that for five years, data centers and crypto exchanges will have to keep detailed data about their users.
The report said that along with the data centers of VPN providers, cloud service providers and virtual private server providers will have to register the customers’ names, ownership patterns, contact information and the reason they are hiring these services. .
The new guidelines will be effective at the end of June, unless the compliance deadline is extended, as is common with such directions.
The overall goal of the order is to ensure that CERT-In responds to cyber incidents within six hours of its discovery. However, the scope of data it is requesting IT businesses to request and deliver on request appears to be extraordinary.
According to CERT, organizations must report data breaches, fake mobile apps, server infrastructure attacks and even illegal access to user’s social media accounts under CERT-In. Additionally, organizations that fail to disclose the required information are subject to section 70B(7) of the IT Act, which carries a jail term of up to one year.
Most VPNs have a “no-logs” policy or, at the very least, only keep user data for a limited amount of time. CERT-New In these guidelines, many VPN providers and other IT businesses may be unable to do business in India. , because they are no longer legally allowed to do so.
This new rule may cause concern among VPN providers and users in India, where its adoption increased from 3.28% of the population in 2020 to 25.27% in the first half of 2021.
Notably, as per last year’s report, in April, when a fresh lockdown was announced in Delhi due to a new wave of Covid-19, the demand for VPNs in the region increased by 53%.
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