Email providers will need to have servers in India
BANGALORE: Indian investigating agencies dealing with cyber crime have much to cheer following recent amendments to the IT Act. The amendments
passed by Parliament require internet behemoths like Google, Rediff and Microsoft — which provide free email services — to set up Indian servers. Not just that, they may also have to provide Indian email accounts for Indian nationals. 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’.
The change is going to make a huge difference for the investigating agencies dealing with cyber crime, including data theft. Local mail IDs are a big problem across the globe, wherein the investigating agencies struggle to get personal details of account holders due to jurisdictional issues. As the servers of these accounts are generally overseas, mostly in the US, every country has to go through the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty and send letters rogatory (LRs) to get the details. The process of sending LRs takes more than six months.
Full story: Email providers will need to have servers in India - India - The Times of India
Does this make sense ? How are they going to prevent a hacker/criminal from getting a email account from another country through a friend or associate and then using it.
Huge difference ? ....the Indian security agencies couldnt spot a boat with terrorists entering Indian territory. What if the hackers steal all the servers and ship them out of India ... OMG :rofl:
BANGALORE: Indian investigating agencies dealing with cyber crime have much to cheer following recent amendments to the IT Act. The amendments
passed by Parliament require internet behemoths like Google, Rediff and Microsoft — which provide free email services — to set up Indian servers. Not just that, they may also have to provide Indian email accounts for Indian nationals. 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’.
The change is going to make a huge difference for the investigating agencies dealing with cyber crime, including data theft. Local mail IDs are a big problem across the globe, wherein the investigating agencies struggle to get personal details of account holders due to jurisdictional issues. As the servers of these accounts are generally overseas, mostly in the US, every country has to go through the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty and send letters rogatory (LRs) to get the details. The process of sending LRs takes more than six months.
Full story: Email providers will need to have servers in India - India - The Times of India
Does this make sense ? How are they going to prevent a hacker/criminal from getting a email account from another country through a friend or associate and then using it.
Huge difference ? ....the Indian security agencies couldnt spot a boat with terrorists entering Indian territory. What if the hackers steal all the servers and ship them out of India ... OMG :rofl:
