While the government and telecom companies drag their feet on bringing transparency on how websites are blocked in India, security and legal researchers are probing ISP networks to figure out some details. In some cases, they are succeeding.
Last month, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs recommended that the government should ban VPNs in India. The interesting bit is that despite a suggested ban on VPNs, its downloads continue to skyrocket among Indian web users.
CoWIN data leak claim that was circulated on social media on Thursday has been denied by the government. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said that prima facie, the reports appeared to be fake. A reseller on the dark Web was found to be selling alleged data of 150 million people vaccinated by the COVID-19 vaccines in the country.