Several VPN apps, including Cloudflare's widely-used 1.1.1.1, have been pulled from Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store in India.

The Indian government appears to have instructed Google and Apple to remove more than six virtual private network, or VPN, apps from their app marketplaces. Among the apps now pulled from the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store are Cloudflare’s popular 1.

Indian law now requires VPN apps to maintain customers’ names, email addresses, IP addresses, and transaction histories for five years.

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India's Ministry of Home Affairs has ordered the removal of several VPN apps from Apple and Google app stores, citing violations of Indian law. This move is the first major enforcement of India's new 2022 regulations requiring VPN and cloud service providers to keep detailed customer records for five years.