Apple, Google Got Rid of many VPN Apps in Bharat, Executive ISSUED FORM to those firms

Virtual private network (VPN) apps have been tightened in the country. Many VPN apps have been removed from American technology company Apple’s App Gather and Play Games Gather of Google. The central government had made rules related to collecting and storing the data of customers for VPN service providers two years ago.

After these rules, many VPN providers closed their physical services in the country. However, they are providing service to their customers. According to a report by Techcrunch. The Ministry of Home Affairs issued an order to Google and Apple asking Play Games Gather and App Gather to remove several VPN apps. The document related to this order has been seen by Techcrunch. The VPN apps removed from Apple and Google’s app stores include the app of American company Cloudflare. Apart from this, apps like X-VPN and Privadovpn have also been removed.

However, some VPN apps like Specific VPN and Mullvad are available on Apple and Google’s app stores. Rules released two years ago by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-in) of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said that VPN service providers were given their customers’ names, addresses, IP addresses and contacts in the country Other details must collect and store for a period of five years. After this, many VPN service providers had said that they would not follow these rules and they had closed their physical services in the country. However, despite this, they are offering VPN service to customers in the country.

In the last few years, there have been difficulties in India for Google. Recently, the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Sundar Pichai was given a contempt notice by a Mumbai court to fail to remove a defamation video on YouTube. The notice was issued on 21 November by the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate at Ballard Pier in Mumbai. It said that YouTube has not followed an order to remove a defamation video in March last year.