Saturday October 29, 2011
Indian Bummer:
RIM Help India Eavesdrop on BlackBerry Users
RIM, makers of the BlackBerry smartphone, have set up a surveillance facility in Mumbai for the Indian government.
BlackBerry phones use encryption to protect the security of messages, but this has frustrated governments around the world as they seek to monitor their citizens.
From eWeek:
The Indian government imposed a deadline of 31 January 2011 for RIM to give it access to BlackBerry emails. RIM initially pleaded for 18-24 months to find a solution to the deadlock, but then in mid-January it announced that it had provided the Indian government with access to the BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service and then, presumably, also set up the facility in Mumbai.
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