India Nodes Removed Due to New Data Sharing Laws
The Indian government proposed then passed new rules requiring VPN / encrypted proxy providers such as Epic to retain user details such as name, email, IP address and websites visited for 5 years. This rather draconian requirement is not something we’re able to comply with so we were forced to remove all India-based encrypted proxy nodes.
Epic is a tool to protect your privacy and your data even from us. We don’t know your name or email, don’t store your IP address, and don’t store your web history. That’s our promise to all our users around the world. Since that’s incompatible with the new laws in India, we were forced to remove all our nodes there.
We feel this is rather draconian and while security is important, over the long run, free and open societies thrive and privacy is essential to any notion of freedom. We hope India modifies these laws in the future.
In the meantime, users in India are free to use encrypted proxy nodes in the several other countries Epic continues to support.
Why isn’t Switzerland one of the choices?
“Draconian” refers to a perso’s name, and should be writtten with a capital D.
Draco was a ruler i ancient Greece who first codified the law. Regrettably, he made these laws far too harsh, often stipulatin =g the death sentence for mior offences. ithin twenty years of his own death, all these harsh laws were rescinded.
In some countries,allowing governments to peer in or nice governments to VPNs could cetainly result in death. These are not nic countries.And if governments can do this,so can criminals.
Draco is also a species of lizard.
India is becoming China xD
Hi Team,
I have installed Epic browser into my system recently and I am not sure why the app is not opening. Is there any work around on this? Please help.
I am unable to use epic with any VPN country
Is this going to be resolved ?
Well done Epic & Thank You