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India's National Payment Corporation to Move Email Data Out of the Cloud

The National Payment Corporation of India, an organization that manages retail financial transactions and a network of ATMs, is hoping to return email data into its platform in order to put a stop to unauthorized access to private information. The agency is hoping to move away from the cloud-computing model which they adopted last year through a partnership with Microsoft. Under the cloud-computing model, emails are stored in data centres based in Singapore. The company's chief technology officer N Rajendran said that this approach raised data security and privacy issues.

"With the increase in the number of people accessing email over mobile and tablets, it becomes important to filter and scan the content, which is not possible currently," Rajendran explained to The Economic Times.

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