ITU: Blackberry Must Open Data Access
The spread of Blackberry blocking problem turned out to attract attention the telecommunications agency of the United Nations (UN). They even asked RIM to cooperate with the state government. Leadership of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) hopes Blackberry manufacturer, Research in Motion (RIM), may provide the possibility of a legal entity of a country to be able to access customer data for legal purposes. “The government of a country that is trying to combat terrorism has the right to gain access to user information from the manufacturer of the Blackberry, RIM,” said Secretary General of ITU Hamadoun Toure, quoted by Fox News, Friday (3/9/2010).
According to Toure, it is an ‘earnest request’ that must be met. In fact, he continued, there must be cooperation between both parties, both government and private parties to resolve the pressing security issues like this. Previously, Saudi Arabia and the countries the United Arab Emirates to fly to block a decision if the RIM Blackberry service is not willing to work together to give access to information related to encrypted communication that occurs between Blackberry users in the country. In addition to Arabic and the UAE, following India, Brazil, even Indonesia will do the same thing.



