{"id":802525,"date":"2022-06-06T21:14:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T21:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usesecurevpn.com\/?p=802525"},"modified":"2022-06-06T21:45:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T21:45:32","slug":"vpns-to-cease-servers-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usesecurevpn.com\/es\/vpns-to-cease-servers-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"VPNs to cease servers in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=\u00bb1&#8243; _builder_version=\u00bb4.16.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb da_disable_devices=\u00bboff|off|off\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb theme_builder_area=\u00bbpost_content\u00bb da_is_popup=\u00bboff\u00bb da_exit_intent=\u00bboff\u00bb da_has_close=\u00bbon\u00bb da_alt_close=\u00bboff\u00bb da_dark_close=\u00bboff\u00bb da_not_modal=\u00bbon\u00bb da_is_singular=\u00bboff\u00bb da_with_loader=\u00bboff\u00bb da_has_shadow=\u00bbon\u00bb][et_pb_row _builder_version=\u00bb4.16.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb theme_builder_area=\u00bbpost_content\u00bb][et_pb_column type=\u00bb4_4&#8243; _builder_version=\u00bb4.16.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb theme_builder_area=\u00bbpost_content\u00bb][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u00bb4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb text_text_color=\u00bb#3c73a3&#8243; global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb theme_builder_area=\u00bbpost_content\u00bb]<\/p>\n<p>ExpressVPN, PureVPN, and others to cease operating physical VPN servers in India or start collecting extensive user data.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=\u00bb4.16.1&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb theme_builder_area=\u00bbpost_content\u00bb][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u00bb4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb theme_builder_area=\u00bbpost_content\u00bb]<\/p>\n<p>All VPN companies received <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/privacy\/india-orders-vpn-companies-to-collect-and-hand-over-user-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/expressvpn.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D46f846bd786bce4b94c944836%26id%3D4e127d8000%26e%3D6c40d56d0a&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1654634827506000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3vMVn6tidnlRYoK3rYQUTT\" rel=\"noopener\">orders<\/a> from the Indian government to collect and store extensive customer data. Furthermore, they will be required to maintain the data for five years or more.<\/p>\n<p>According to the new directive, VPN companies are supposed to collect and report the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Customer names, physical address, email address, and phone numbers.<\/li>\n<li>The reason for using the service, the exact dates of their activity, and their \u00abownership pattern.\u00bb<\/li>\n<li>The original IP address combined with an email address that customer used to register and the registration time stamp.<\/li>\n<li>All IP addresses that were issued to a customer by the VPN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This will impact all VPN providers and their users. As a company focused on protecting privacy and freedom of expression online, most VPNs with a no-log policy will never log user activity. However, they will have to adjust their operations and infrastructure to preserve this principle if and when necessary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Therefore, VPN service providers will cease operations of physical VPN servers in India<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In many cases, this will not impact users based in India or those who wish to use an Indian IP address, as VPN companies will continue operating Indian virtual server locations. Therefore, users based in India will be able to continue using VPNs as usual.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VPNs to cease operating physical VPN servers in India. The Indian government required from VPN companies to collect and store extensive customer data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":802541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<!-- wp:divi\/placeholder \/-->","_et_gb_content_width":"","_aioseo_description":null,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[68,59,71],"class_list":["post-802525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-india","tag-vpn","tag-vpns-to-cease-physical-vpn-servers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usesecurevpn.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usesecurevpn.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usesecurevpn.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usesecurevpn.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usesecurevpn.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usesecurevpn.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usesecurevpn.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usesecurevpn.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usesecurevpn.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usesecurevpn.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}