ment to ban VPN services in the country. As per a report by MediaNama, the committee explained that the reason why VPN services should be banned in India is because VPN apps and tools are easily available online and these allow “criminals to remain anonymous online.”
For those unaware, VPN services are used by most companies
in India to secure their networks and digital assets from hackers. Also, VPN
tools became all the more important during lockdown when employees were forced
to work from home using their unsecured home internet connection. While VPN
services allow internet users to access content that is blocked in the country
and also stay “anonymous” to a certain degree online, the benefits of VPN is
immense for companies when it comes to securing networks. The committee also
proposed “to put a check on the use of VPN and the dark web.”
It further suggested that “a coordination mechanism should
also be developed with international agencies to ensure that these VPNs are
blocked permanently.” The report by MediaNama also said that the committee
wants “the Ministry to take initiatives to strengthen the tracking and
surveillance mechanisms by further improving and developing the
state-of-the-art technology, to put a check on the use of VPN and the dark
web.”
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