Nord VPN may quit India after government mandates storing user data

Nord VPN, one of the leading VPN service providers, has warned that India’s new regulations for virtual private network providers that mandate them to store user data may cause it to shut down its Indian servers. Many VPN services, such as Nord VPN, stress privacy of users is paramount, which is why they claim to neither store the IP location of the machine used to access their network nor the customer's online data — except for the account details that you use to sign in to these networks. The Indian government’s new regulation demands that Nord VPN breaks its policy for its Indian servers and start maintaining the log of the users that connect to these servers. Since the rule applies to only Indian servers of Nord VPN — which the company is likely to shut because it cannot comply with the government’s demand, Indian users should still be able to connect to Nord’s servers in other countries.