Bappa Majumdar reports: Research In Motion has promised India a technical solution for decoding encrypted BlackBerry data, a senior official said on Friday, a step that could allay Indian security concerns about the smartphone and avert a shutdown. Indian authorities, who met with RIM officials on Friday, also pledged to go after other companies —…
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Probe urged on Hong Kong banks’ personal data sale
More on the sale of bank customers’ data in Hong Kong, reported previously on this site: Hong Kong’s government was on Friday urged to launch a probe after six banks were found to have sold the personal data of 600,000 customers to insurance companies. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) said each of the banks…
India gives RIM until Aug 31 to yield on BlackBerry
Bappa Majumdar and Paul de Bendern report: India, the world’s fastest-growing telecom market, said it would hobble Research In Motion’s BlackBerry smartphone unless the company gives it the keys to decode encrypted email and messages by the end of August. The ultimatum was issued on Thursday, hours after senior government officials and state-run telecom operators…
HK: Six banks sold customers’ personal data
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has revealed that six local banks have sold the personal information of more than 600,000 clients to unrelated third parties for marketing purposes over the past years. It said some of these institutions, which cannot be named for legal reasons, only stopped selling such data last month following a…