<p>New Delhi: Wary of cyber snooping, the government may ban use of e-mail services like Gmail and Yahoo for official communications so as to safeguard its critical data.</p><p>Department of Electronics and Information Technology is drafting a policy on e-mail usage in government offices and departments, which will be released in two months.</p><p>"We are working on an e-mail policy. The policy will apply to all the central and state government employees using NIC. It will come out in about two months time," DEITY Secretary J Satyanarayana told PTI when asked whether the government is drafting a policy to check the use of e-mail services like Gmail, Yahoo etc.</p><p>When asked about the e-mail services that will be banned, Satyanarayana said: "I will not be able to spell out the specifics. But, in general, it is to address the large amount of critical government data and ways and means to safeguard it."</p><p><a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130903/news-current-affairs/article/government-may-ban-use-gmail-yahoo-official-communications">Keep reading...</a></p>