Intelligence chiefs of India, Canada meet; discuss BlackBerry

New Delhi, Nov 18 (PTI) India and Canada are understood to
have discussed lawful interception of BlackBerry service and
migration of Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka to Canada during
talks between their Intelligence Chiefs here Friday.
Director of Canadian Security Intelligence Service Robert
B Fadden met Director Intelligence Bureau Rajiv Mathur during
which issues like sharing of intelligence, interception of
BlackBerry service besides migration of Tamil refugees are
said to have figured among others, official sources said.
The government has asked BlackBerry phone makers Research
in Motion (RIM) to come up with a final solution by December
31 on giving access to security agencies to its popular
messenger and enterprise services.
There are around one million BlackBerry subscribers in
India.
Earlier, Fadden also met Home Secretary G K Pillai and
Research and Analysis Wing Chief A K Verma and discussed
issues of mutual importance, the sources said. PTI ABS
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