Monday, January 31, 2011

India Demands Full BlackBerry Access, Pakistan - NYTimes.com

The hoary old “state security vs. personal (and corporate) privacy” narrative:

NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - India rejected on Monday Research In Motion's (RIM) offer to allow it only partial access to its BlackBerry data services as neighboring Pakistan also moved to restrict the popular smartphone's services.

It was not immediately clear what the Indian government, which says it is driven by security concerns, would now do after the Canadian smartphone maker failed to fulfill demands to monitor encrypted corporate email by a January 31 deadline. RIM had previously said was confident India would not ban its services

India Demands Full BlackBerry Access, Pakistan - NYTimes.com

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