When amendments to India's IT Act come into force,
companies that provide free email accounts (eg Google, Rediff and Microsoft) will be required to:
- set up Indian servers; and
- provide Indian email accounts for Indian nationals.
The purpose of these requirements is to help India during its investigations of cyber crime.
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This will have far-reaching ramifications for the millions of users of Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoomail in India.
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Internet users will have email accounts ending with ?.in? instead of ?.com?. While some like Yahoo already provide email services with this suffix, many others offer the global suffix ?.com?.
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The question is, will global email providers agree to the idea of hosting servers in India to service their Indian client base?
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I wonder how willingly these companies will take such steps to assist in cyber crime investigations?