BlackBerry maker grants India access to emails, say reports

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Source: The National

Research In Motion (RIM), the company that makes the BlackBerry, will allow authorities in India to monitor its secure email network after months of pressure, according to press reports.

RIM has told the Indian Government that it is willing to share the technical codes to monitor BlackBerry Enterprise Servers as well as any BlackBerry device which agencies may want to track, the reports claim.

India’s Economic Times newspaper said RIM will grant access to all consumer emails within 15 days and develop tools in six to eight months to allow monitoring of chats.

The BlackBerry negotiations were held during a meeting between the Department of Telecom and RIM officials on July 26, the newspaper said...

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