Speaking on Monday at the Computer and Internet Crime Conference in London, FBI special agent and US Embassy assistant legal attache, Ed Gibson condemned firms offering webmail services for using their international status to sidestep national laws.
According to The Register news service, which reported on the conference, Mr Gibson took aim at the mail services provided by Yahoo and Microsoft, explaining that:
"With Hotmail and Yahoo! you can't get data using RIPA (the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) because information is stored in the US. Why aren't ISPs required to comply with the laws of this country?"
He also suggested that the UK authorities should crack down on hosting services which sell online space without undertaking any due diligence on their customers, observing that:
"You've got companies with between 30k-90k servers with no requirement to know their customer. The money laundering regs of the financial industry ought to be applied to ISPs."
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