They must stay here and fight it out,” Singh said. “A small business like this based in India can’t pack up and leave the country like the multinational service providers. To start collecting details like name, IP address, address, contact information, and the purpose of using VPN, and to keep it for five years even after the user’s relationship with the VPN service provider has ended, has been challenged in court. Direction V requires VPN service providers to collect vast amounts of personal data of users which they are not in the business of collecting, he added. This includes user activity, his/her data, which must be stored on the company’s server at his cost for six months or more,” Singh said. “He (Jain) is not challenging the entirety of Cert-In’s directions, but just direction IV and V which requires all service providers like data centres to maintain user logs for 180 days. Singh pointed out that as a small business, SnTHostings falls in the micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) category. Harsh Jain did not respond to calls from ET. “Proton VPN and TunnelBear announced their departure around the weekend as Cert-In’s directions had to be followed from September 25 and (they had to) maintain user logs,” Singh said. Tanmay Singh, senior litigation counsel, IFF, who is representing SnTHostings proprietor Harsh Jain, said international VPN service providers like Express VPN, Nord VPN, Proton VPN, Surfshark, and TunnelBear had exited India.
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