So if for some reason I wanted to find info on The Cure's 1982 album Pornography, the cops would get notified? What if I wanted to see if Anthrax had a new album coming out?

Why do techies keep agreeing to work on bullshit like this?

Since it is likely to be just monitor for some keywords, this seems very likely.

> "To study the analytics of the internet, a company named 'Oomuph' has been hired ...The internet data will inform 1090 team if a person is searching for porn. The team will then send 'awareness messages' to the person. By doing this, the crime will be stopped at the initial process itself ...".

- https://www.news18.com/news/india/up-govt-to-monitor-search-...

> To prevent incidents of eve-teasing, rapes and molestation, the Uttar Pradesh police have decided to monitor pornographic searches on the internet. The police have hired a company to monitor the internet searches and keep data of the people who search porn content and analyse it.

> "The data of such people will be with the police...it will help the police in nabbing the offender if any incident of crime against the women takes place in the area," she said.

> "The traditional methods of outreach have many drawbacks...we need to modernise the methods," the ADG said.

- https://www.deccanherald.com/national/north-and-central/for-...

Are VPN's and SSH tunnels blocked in India?

Not yet.

> Uttar Pradesh, a state in Northern India.

Please stop clickbaiting headlines by leaving out relevant context.

Perhaps you don't know that HN imposes a character limit on the title, and hence I couldn't post the whole headline? (Also, curious - what country did you think the headline was talking about?)