Delhi HC seeks Cert-In’s response to plea challenging cybersecurity directions

The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the government on a plea by Virtual Private Network (VPN) firm SnTHostings challenging the legality of directions issued by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) in April on the mandatory record keeping of users. SnTHostings provides hosting, VPN and Virtual Private Server (VPS) services.

The directions by Cert-In on April 28 presented an existential crisis as they mandated the firm to collect a range of personal data and share it with Cert-In on demand and/or on the occurrence of a cybersecurity incident, the company said in its petition.