Ceres
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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.
- 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.
This will have far-reaching ramifications for the millions of users of Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoomail in India.
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?.
I wonder how willingly these companies will take such steps to assist in cyber crime investigations?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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