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Veiled threats to privacy

Every VPN operating in India will now require to do the KYC for users and keep logs of their usage for five years

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Devangshu Datta
Virtual private networks or VPNs, have many uses. By surfing through a VPN, users can mask a large proportion of personal data, obfuscate location, and conceal surfing patterns. This makes them useful to people with many different use-cases.

Human rights activists who don’t wish to be tracked by hostile regimes use them; corporates seeking end-to-end encryption for communications use them; people who wish to access geo-blocked websites, and content, use them; people who wish to access online banking services only available to residents of a given country use them; those who simply wish to protect their data use them.

One common use
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