by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 22, 2010
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last modified
Aug 18, 2011 05:07 AM
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filed under:
Openness,
Digital Activism
Leading e-mail providers like Gmail and Yahoo Mail have introduced open protocols for copying e-mails offline through Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird but popular social networking websites like Facebook, Myspace, etc generally do not allow the user to backup their own data. Sunil Abraham through this article points out that if competition and technological development does not rectify the situation then the government needs to intervene for the sake of its citizens.
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