After BlackBerry, government now asks Internet Service Providers to install servers
Posted on 29. Aug, 2010 by Murthy in Technology
GOI has had talked tough to the BlackBerry makers RIM asking them to have the servers installed within the country so it can have control on the encrypted data that pass through the BlackBerry message servicing network. The government also gave a deadline of August 30, to the RIM.
Government of India now has its sights set on Internet Service Providers including Google, Skype and Yahoo asking them to install servers in India.
India mulls with the idea of banning the ISPs should they not have their servers installed in India and provide access to the intelligence agencies.
In the recent times, the Indian intelligence agencies experienced issues to retrieve data from the servers of ISPs which are present in abroad locations as they tried to track some mails of terror suspects and suspects of money laundering cases.
Intelligence Bureau (IB), National Technical Research Organization (NTRO) and Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) will be the authorized agencies that monitor the mails of suspects regularly. When the mails are trashed it is possible to retrieve only via imaging at mother servers of the respective ISPs. As the servers are located abroad by the time the request for deleted mails of suspects reaches the mother server, it is too late and they are no more available.
