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RIM sets up surveillance facility in Mumbai: Reports
TT Correspondent |  |  29 Oct 2011

Research In Motion (RIM) is believed to have established a monitoring centre in Mumbai. The purpose this facility is to help the Indian government conduct surveillance checks on the company's BlackBerry services, the media reports suggest.

 

Though there is no official comment from Indian government or RIM, these reports quoted unnamed people familiar with the matter who said the Canadian firm opened the centre earlier this year to deal with requests from Indian intelligence agencies.

 

RIM and the Indian government have been embroiled in a row over access to BlackBerry services, in particular encrypted email and instant message facilities that New Delhi fears could be used by extremists to plot attacks.

 

Multiple deadlines have been issued to the firm to comply with government requests for monitoring.

 

The Wall Street Journal said RIM was now allowing surveillance of BlackBerry Internet services and the company was no longer facing the prospect of shutdowns.

 

RIM was complying with intercept requests on suspect individuals once it was satisfied the demand had legal authorisation, it added.

 

India's Telecoms Minister Milind Deora was quoted as saying by the daily that the government still wants to "find some middle ground" with RIM.

    
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