Question
According to Atlas VPN’s Global VPN adoption
index, what is the rank of India in VPN penetration rate in the first half of 2021?Solution
India ranked fourth among 85 countries in the VPN penetration rate in the first half of 2021, according to Atlas VPN’s Global VPN adoption index. VPN installation in India grew from 3.28% in 2020 to 25.27% in the first half of 2021. India is believed to have 270 million VPN users. ExpressVPN, owned by British Virgin Islands-based Express Technologies, is removing its servers in India. Under an order issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), companies such as ExpressVPN would have been forced to collect and store all this data for five years and share it with relevant government authorities when asked. ExpressVPN said that it will never collect logs of user activity, browsing history, traffic destination, connection logs, timestamps, or session duration. The new order is expected to come into effect on June 27.
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