Research In Motion (RIM), the makers of BlackBerry smart phones, has set up a facility in Mumbai to help the Indian Government carry out lawful surveillance of its BlackBerry services, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.
India can submit the name of a suspect its investigators want to wiretap, and RIM will return decoded messages for that individual, as long as it is satisfied the request has legal authorization, it said. RIM gave India access to its consumer services, including its Messenger services, in January this year after authorities raised security concerns, but said it could not allow monitoring of its enterprise email. RIM partly assuaged India by setting up the small Mumbai facility earlier this year to handle surveillance requests from India. India still has no method to intercept and decode BlackBerry enterprise email, which is used by corporate customers and features a higher level of encryption than consumer email and instant messaging, the report said. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nforceit" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nforceit?hl=en-GB.
