India rejects BlackBerry offer for partial access to data, demands full access
India on Monday rejected BlackBerry maker Research In Motions (RIM) offer to allow the country to partially access its data services only as the company failed to fulfill demands to monitor encrypted corporate mail by a January 31 deadline. 
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Indian Prime Minister Singh and Home Minister Chidambaram chat at the bicentennial celebration of India's largest commercial bank, State Bank of India, in Bombay in this file photo.
Indian Prime Minister Singh and Home Minister Chidambaram chat at the bicentennial celebration of India's largest commercial bank, State Bank of India, in Bombay in this file photo.
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Palaniappan Chidambaram, India s home minister, told journalists that India still wanted access to e-mails after RIM said earlier in January that it had given India the means to access BlackBerry messenger service ahead of the deadline.The company had reiterated that it could not give Indian authorities access to monitor secure corporate e-mails."I think a decision will be taken today by the Ministry of Home Affairs," said Chidambaram.India had demanded access to all BlackBerry services last year to help fight militancy and security threats over the Internet and telephone communications.
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Meanwhile, Pakistan urged its mobile phone operators to stop BlackBerry services to foreign missions due to security concerns.Research In Motion said it does not have a master key to decode e-mails as it encrypts e-mail messages that travel between its BlackBerry device and its BlackBerry Enterprise Server.The Canadian smart phone maker said organizations will have the technical capability to grant access to its own encrypted enterprise e-mail.Earlier in January, the company had said it would filter pornographic Internet content for BlackBerry users in Indonesia, following government pressure to restrict access to porn sites or face its browsing service being shut down.The company had narrowly escaped a ban in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates last year.
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