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Blackberry services such as SMS’s, e-mail and Internet browsing are highly encrypted and cannot be easily monitored by the Government security agencies. The Government’s concern is that this technology can be used by the terrorist groups and other anti-national agencies.

Earlier, in January 2008, Government had asked Blackberry to reduce the level of encryption while delivering messages over its network, to let the security agencies monitor the user’s activities. But there has been no reduction in the level of encryption so far.

Two Gulf countries UAE and Saudi Arabia have already announced to shutdown the BlackBerry Service in their countries due to the same concern. India may also follow suit, if there is no action taken by the Blackberry Authorities and the services may be discontinued, which may affect a large number of Blackberry users in India.