RIM to Give Indian Government Access to BlackBerry Messenger

From PC World: Research In Motion has agreed to provide the Indian government with access to BlackBerry Messenger communications on a case-by-case basis, according to a spokesman for the company in India.

The company will, however, only allow the government "lawful access" to these communications after following due legal process, rather than providing continuous access to the messages, the spokesman said.

The Indian government said on Friday that its security agencies are still not able to intercept and monitor in a readable format the communications made through RIM's Messenger and enterprise services. The government believes that terrorists are increasingly using mobile and online communications to plan attacks.

The government expects to have access to BlackBerry Messenger communications by the end of January, India's Home Secretary G.K. Pillai told The Wall Street Journal.

A resolution to India's demand for access to corporate email on BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) has however not been found. The Indian government is working on getting access to these communications from RIM's corporate customers, Pillai said.

View: Article @ Source Site