route all emails accessed in India through the country even if the
mail account is registered outside the country.
The move comes in the wake of instances where security agencies could
not have a real-time access to some emails as they were registered
outside the country but were opened in India.
During a recent high-level meeting held in the office of Union Home
Secretary R K Singh, the Department of Information Technology was
asked to take up the matter at the earliest with the content
providers.
During the meeting, director general from CERT-in, the Indian cyber
community, informed that content provider Yahoo automatically locates
all email accounts registered in India to the server in India, minutes
of the meeting said.
However, Yahoo accounts registered outside India and subsequently
accessed from India are routed through servers outside India, it said.
"It was decided to advice Yahoo, Gmail etc that all emails accessed
from India should be routed through servers in India," it said, adding
that the Department of Information Technology would take up the matter
with the content providers.
The need for this was felt after security agencies failed to access
accounts of suspected terrorists of Indian Mujahideen during the
surveillance period as the same had been opened in a European country.
When the content provider was approached, the sleuths were told that
in order to see the mails, which had been accessed from India, a
request to a European nation where the server was based, was required,
official sources said.
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