India Business Law Journal, July 12, 2022. Several digital rights organisations have expressed their concerns about these directions to the MEITY. Many VPN providers, including ExpressVPN and Surfshark, have decided to pull out of India by removing their India-based VPN servers. Read more

Devdiscourse, July 7, 2022. Korean technology giant Samsung on Friday said it will comply with the Cert-In directive that has proposed VPN services, cloud service providers etc to maintain logs of their system for six months and details of subscribers for five years. Around a dozen international industry bodies including BSA, have opposed the proposed cybersecurity rules. Read more

Nikkei Asia, July 6, 2022. The future of the India’s internet industry with the roll-out of an extension by the government on the compliance deadline of the new cybersecurity rules is uncertain. The critics accuse the government of ramming the directive through without enough discussion in the first place. Read more