To ensure security for confidential
government information and to prevent hacking of Government websites
Indian Government may ban the use of Gmail for Official purpose.
Gmail is the well known service which is use for sending, receiving emails.
As per The Economic Times report, the government is going to plan send a formal
notification almost 5 lakh Government Employees. The Gmail Servers are located
outside India, which is biggest threat of Information lick age.
J Satyanarayana, Secretary, department
of electronics and information technology said "Data if Indian users
reside in other countries as the servers are located outside. Currently, we are
looking to address this in the government domain where there are large amounts
of critical data."
