{"id":893278,"date":"2025-01-06T11:20:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T05:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=893278"},"modified":"2025-01-06T11:20:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T05:50:01","slug":"apple-and-google-have-removed-these-six-vpn-apps-from-app-stores-for-failing-to-abide-by-indias-data-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/06\/apple-and-google-have-removed-these-six-vpn-apps-from-app-stores-for-failing-to-abide-by-indias-data-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple and Google have removed these six VPN apps from app stores for failing to abide by India\u2019s data laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several of VPN applications, including Cloudflare&#8217;s popular 1.1.1.1 app, have been removed from app stores following government orders, marking the first major enforcement of India&#8217;s 2022 VPN regulations.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Home Affairs directed Apple and Google to pull more than half a dozen VPN apps from their respective stores, according to documents reviewed by TechCrunch. Affected services include Hide.me and PrivadoVPN, alongside Cloudflare&#8217;s widely-used offering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of VPN applications, including Cloudflare&#8217;s popular 1.1.1.1 app, have been removed from app stores following government orders, marking the first major enforcement of India&#8217;s 2022 VPN regulations. The Ministry of Home Affairs directed Apple and Google to pull more than half a dozen VPN apps from their respective stores, according to documents reviewed by TechCrunch. Affected services include Hide.me and PrivadoVPN, alongside Cloudflare&#8217;s widely-used offering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}