Research in Motion (RIM) has agreed to allow Indian security agencies to monitor its BlackBerry services, The Economic Times newspaper reported on Tuesday, after pressure from governments worried about national security. I believe RIM will also follow same route with Dubai and Saudi governments which are also putting pressure on RIM to open their blackberry services for monitoring.
RIM has offered to share with Indian security agencies its technical codes for corporate email services, open up access to all consumer emails within 15 days and also develop tools in six to eight months to allow monitoring of chats, the paper said, citing internal government documents.
RIM will provide further details on its proposals to the Indian telecoms ministry on Tuesday, the newspaper said.
The Blackberry’s tight email security has been key to its popularity with businesses, and is RIM’s main selling point against Apple Inc , Nokia and other rivals. But governments like the UAE, Saudi Arabia and India are concerned that those same features make it difficult for them to monitor BlackBerry messages for national security purposes.
Via Reuters and WSJ RIM, India Seek to Resolve Security Concerns
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