Comply With Rules Or Leave India: Government To VPN Service Providers
NDTV
Some of the VPN companies have claimed that the new rule may lead to cyber security loopholes - an argument rejected by the minister. US-based tech industry body ITI, having firms such as Google, Facebook, IBM and Cisco as members, has sought a revision in the Indian government's directive.
Virtual Private Network or VPN service providers that are not ready to comply with the new guidelines have the only option to exit from India, minister of state for electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Wednesday.
The minister, while releasing FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) on the recent directive on reporting of cyber breach incidents, said that every well meaning company or entity understands that a safe and trusted internet is going to help it.
"There is no opportunity for somebody to say we will not follow the rules and laws of India. If you don't have the logs, start maintaining the logs. If you are a VPN that wants to hide and be anonymous about those who use its VPN and you don't want to go by these rules, if you want to pull out, then frankly you have no other opportunity but to pull out," he said.
The ministry of electronics and IT has mandated cloud service providers, VPN (Virtual Private Network) firms, data centre companies and virtual private server providers to store users' data for at least five years.
