India to impose email restrictions

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India to impose email restrictions

October 30, 2013 15:31India's Communications and IT Minister, Kapil Sibal, intends to introduce the ban before the end of December

India is planning to impose a ban on the use of foreign cloud-based email services to send official communications, before the end of the year. It would prevent civil servants using Gmail, Yahoo! or Outlook.com. Instead they would be required to use a service provided by the country's own National Informatics Centre (NIC). The move follows the publication of leaks about US cyber-spying operations. According to documents given to the Guardian and subsequently reported by The Hindu newspaper in June, 6.3 billion pieces of information were collected from India's computer and telephone networks over the course of a month by the US National Security Agency (NSA), making it the fifth most "intensively watched" country. Spying allegations India's communications and IT minister first announced his intention to restrict which email services officials could use in August.
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