....Wary of cyber snooping, the government may ban use of e-mail services such as Gmail and Yahoo for official communications so as to safeguard its critical data....
....The Department of Electronics and Information Technology is drafting a policy on e-mail usage in government offices and departments, which will be released in two months.....
.....The government will send a formal notification after the policy is implemented in about two months covering about 5-6 lakh Central and State government employees to use the email service provided by National Informatics Centre (NIC).....
....The development comes close on heels of concerns being raised by a section in the government, especially intelligence agencies, over use of email services, provided by foreign firms (mostly US-based), which have their servers located in overseas locations, making it difficult to track if sensitive government data is being snooped upon....
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....The Department of Electronics and Information Technology is drafting a policy on e-mail usage in government offices and departments, which will be released in two months.....
.....The government will send a formal notification after the policy is implemented in about two months covering about 5-6 lakh Central and State government employees to use the email service provided by National Informatics Centre (NIC).....
....The development comes close on heels of concerns being raised by a section in the government, especially intelligence agencies, over use of email services, provided by foreign firms (mostly US-based), which have their servers located in overseas locations, making it difficult to track if sensitive government data is being snooped upon....
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