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ISP moves its customers' e-mail to avoid possible surveillance
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:26:12 -0700
________________________________________ From: peter.capek () gmail com [peter.capek () gmail com] On Behalf Of Peter Capek [capek () ieee org] Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:32 AM To: David Farber Subject: ISP moves its customers' e-mail to avoid possible surveillance
From a press release on the TeliaSonera web site; capitalization is mine, for emphasis.
-- Peter Capek 04/01/2008 08:25:23 CET (TeliaSonera Finland) Sonera moves its customers' e-mails to Finland Sonera upgrades its e-mail system and moves its customers' e-mail services back to Finland at the end of April. At present, the servers are running on TeliaSonera's shared e-mail platform in Sweden. Later this spring, the size of Sonera's mailboxes will be increased tenfold in response to customer wishes. "We decided to move Sonera's e-mail services back to Finland IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE PRIVACY OF OUR FINNISH CUSTOMERS. After the migration, e-mails sent from one Finn to another will not cross Finland's borders at any stage. At the same time, we were able to modernize our entire e-mail environment, thanks to which we are now better prepared for various types of failures," says Juha-Pekka Weckström, Senior Vice President of TeliaSonera Broadband Services Finland. The removal is DRIVEN BY THE SWEDISH GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSED LAW which would allow the National Defence Radio Establishment to intercept all electronic communications passing the national border. The migration which takes place in April will be performed on a weekend to minimize user inconvenience. Sonera will inform its customers about the exact schedule by email later this month. In total, the number of email boxes to be transferred is approximately 500,000 of which 450,000 are used by private customers and 50,000 by business customers. For Sonera's private broadband customers, the e-mail service is available at no charge. ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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