Saturday, 31 August 2013

Cyber-spying fallout: Govt may restrict usage of Google's Gmail for employees Indu Nandakumar & J Srikant, ET Bureau Aug 30, 2013, 09.53AM IST Tags: US National Security Agency| US government| Prism| National Security Agency| Kapil Sibal| Google India| Google| Gmail| Facebook| cyber-spying| Apple (The move comes in the wake…) BANGALORE/NEW DELHI: The government will soon ask all its employees to stop using Google's Gmail for official communication, a move intended to increase security of confidential government information after revelations of widespread cyber-spying by the US. A senior official in the ministry of communications and information technology said the government plans to send a formal notification to nearly 5 lakh employees barring them from email service providers such as Gmail that have their servers in the US, and instead asking them to stick to the official email service provided by India's National Informatics Centre.

Indu Nandakumar & J Srikant, ET Bureau Aug 30, 2013, 09.53AM IST
(The move comes in the wake…)
BANGALORE/NEW DELHI: The government will soon ask all its employees to stop using Google's Gmail for official communication, a move intended to increase security of confidential government information after revelations of widespread cyber-spying by the US.
A senior official in the ministry of communications and information technology said the government plans to send a formal notification to nearly 5 lakh employees barring them from email service providers such as Gmail that have their servers in the US, and instead asking them to stick to the official email service provided by India's National Informatics Centre.

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