In the aftermath of new web surveillance laws, VPN supplier Private Internet Access has pulled out of Russia.

The firm maintains that some of its Russian servers were confiscated by the national government as punishment for not complying with the rules, which request suppliers hold and to log session data and all Russian web traffic for up to a year.

The supplier promised users that as it will not log any session or traffic data, no information was undermined – ‘Our users are, and will constantly be, safe and private.’

Upon learning of the national actions, the firm declared that it would no longer be working in the area and promptly removed its Russian availability.

Private Internet Access additionally included that following the event, it was upgrading all of its certifications and on top of what’s already in place, client programs ‘with improved security measures to mitigate conditions in this way in the future.’

Russian authorities are tightening control on the internet and have anonymising applications like Tor and targeted VPNs, and other internet proxies, while enlarging surveillance capability.

In July 2014, the government passed an info localisation law which stipulates that all foreign internet services processing Russians’ the info must be hosted by info on local servers.