Zero tolerance on anonymity being cover for online crime: MoS IT

The government has ‘zero tolerance’ on anonymity being a cover for crimes committed online, and production of evidence during the course of a criminal investigation is an “unambiguous obligation” on intermediaries and players, IT Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar asserted on Tuesday.

He was responding to a question about some VPN providers pulling out servers from India in the aftermath of the new cybersecurity rules introduced recently, even as they have purportedly assured users of continued services.