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Blackberry seeks fresh appointment with Home Ministry | Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM)has reportedly sough a fresh appointment with the government, which has been asking the smartphone vendor to provide access to email and messenger data or face ban.
RIM Vice President has reportedly sought another meeting, even though sources
in the government have said that no time has been allotted yet. Meanwhile, RIM
has said it would allow Indian security agencies only to do legal monitoring of
data of its subscribers. "The only time it allows carriers to access the data
sent via BlackBerry devices is in the case of national security situations, and
even then, only as governed by the country's judicial oversight and rules of law,"
the Canada-based Research In Motion (RIM) said in a statement yesterday. India
has threatened to shut down Blackberry e-mail and instant messaging services by
August 31, unless RIM granted security agencies the technology to decrypt Blackberry
communications, citing national security concerns. Although some experts have
opined that RIM's decision to only allow access to its data when ordered to do
so by a judge might be problematic in certain countries where the judiciary is
less than impartial, the company said that it maintains a "consistent global standard
for lawful access requirements that does not include special deals for specific
countries". "Although RIM cannot disclose confidential regulatory discussions
that take place with any government, RIM assures its customers that it genuinely
tries to be as cooperative as possible with governments in the spirit of supporting
legal and national security requirements, while also preserving the lawful needs
of citizens and corporations," RIM said. Any technical capabilities that RIM would
give to a carrier that would allow for the legal monitoring of BlackBerry messages
would have to be "technology and vendor neutral," the company said, an indication
that RIM is not willing to allow foreign governments to access data sent using
BlackBerrys that security agencies in those countries wouldn't already be able
to monitor if it were sent from smartphones made by competing manufacturers. India's
ultimatum was issued hours after senior officials from government, intelligence
and state-run telecom operators met to discuss how to gain access to BlackBerry
content. "If a technical solution is not provided by 31st August, 2010, the Government
will review the position and take steps to block these two services from the network,"
a government spokesperson had said. India wants access in a readable format to
encrypted BlackBerry communication, on grounds it could be used by militants.
There are an estimated one million BlackBerry subscribers in the country. |
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