How good would that be a data, which you cannot even access? And similarly, how safe would that be a communication process, which you cannot even track? These are the two major questions which have made the Indian security agencies uncomfortable while looking at the BlackBerry services’ data encryption status for the Indian market. There is no doubt that Research In Motion (RIM) has created a great communication product in BlackBerry. This has ruled the smartphone category almost across the world. And this market dominance has been witnessed in India as well.
Like other countries, the problem has started taking shape in India as the security agencies have felt the need to access the BlackBerry communications data, which was found to be too safe or too secured to be accessed. The fact is that the encryption level of BlackBerry services is too high as it doesn’t allow any other agency, including Indian government to access the data. The main point of this entire issue, is to define a clear categorisation between BlackBerry’s user privacy and national security.
via http://www.financialexpress.com/news/its-national-security-versus-user-privacy/656069/.
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