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Old 04-09-09, 10:07 AM   #1
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Email providers will need to have servers in India

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.

“For a long time, we have been asking for this, and I think there will be an automatic change once the gazette notification for IT Act amendment comes into effect. Parliament has passed the Bill, and internet domains will be bound by Indian law if they have to carry out their business here,’’ says IGP, CoD, H C Kishore Chandra.

In India, the issue assumed critical proportion after the Mumbai terror attacks, where the terrorists used BlackBerry mobiles. As the parent company initially refused to part with information critical to the investigation, there was even talk of banning BlackBerry.

“It’s a question of availability of information when we need it. When the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team director was here for discussion, we said this can’t go on forever. Most of the time, we had to plead helplessness as we could not get information in time,’’ DIG, CoD, Malini Krishnamurthy says.

The question is, will global email providers agree to the idea of hosting servers in India to service their Indian client base?

“We don’t know how they are going to do it, but the government has decided to do it. Every domain company has their branch office here, and they are bound to pass on the information immediately, whenever investigation agency needs it,’’ Krishnamurthy says.

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Old 04-09-09, 10:12 AM   #2
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Even saw this today, I wonder if its gonna make a difference, coz the user always has a choice to open a account in .com or .in domain.

And with these "terrorists" making "informed" decisions, I wonder if it will make a difference.

But it has a purpose if push email providers like blackberry have their servers in India.They can be used to assist Indian authorities, without International formalities..
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30 years ago, law enforcing agencies would have dreamed of the technology we have now and assured that there will be no crime if we have those. Now even with these high tech gadgets, ip tracking etc, there is no decrease in crime rate. These changes cannot accommodate avg. and above avg. criminals. But will sure cap petty criminals.

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