BlackBerry’s Mumbai unit to police calls

Research In Motion has set up a facility in Mumbai to help the Indian government carry out lawful surveillance of its BlackBerry services, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. The RIM gave India access to its consumer services, including its Messenger services, in January after authorities raised security fears, but said it could not allow monitoring of its enterprise email. The RIM assuaged India by setting up the small Mumbai facility earlier this year to handle surveillance requests from India, the WSJ reported. India can submit the name of a suspect its investigators want to wiretap, and RIM will return decoded messages for that individual, as long as it is satisfied the request has legal authorization, it said.