RIM Facility Helps India Monitor Messages, Email

Research in Motion has set up a small facility in India to help the government lawfully monitor some of the encrypted data that travels over its servers.
Citing “people familiar with the matter,” a Wall Street Journal report said the facility has satisfied an ongoing disagreement between RIM and the Indian government for the time being, but officials still want more access to BlackBerry email and instant messages.
Last year, the government threatened to shut down RIM’s services completely in the country if RIM did not offer a solution to let it intercept messages on BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) and BlackBerry Internet Service email. The government gave RIM several deadlines to come up with a s... »read more

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