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VPN services such as ExpressVPN, NordVPN and SurfShark have announced shutting down India servers.
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About
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
- The first VPN was developed in 1996 by Microsoft employees, among whom was India-born Gurdeep Singh Pall.
- Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a service that helps internet users to stay private online by hiding their (Internet Protocol) IP addresses.
- VPN establishes an encrypted connection between the user’s computer and the internet, providing a private tunnel for their data, making them anonymous and blocking anyone from tracking their movements like where they are going or what they are doing.
- It is the IP address – a special number unique to the user’s internet network– that helps websites, law enforcement agencies, cybercriminals or anyone else looking into an individual’s internet activities and track down their accurate location.
- Without a VPN, the user’s IP address is visible to the web. VPNs obscure the user’s internet usage by jumping the signal off multiple servers.
- VPN extends through encrypted connections over the Internet.
- Since the line is encrypted between the network and the device connected to it, the traffic remains private.
