The Indian government filed a request to a number of foreign companies such as Google, Skype and Research In Motion (RIM) that the government can ‘read’ each of the data for intelligence purposes. If these companies could not meet the government’s request, India shall prohibit any of their products in India.

India’s Department of Telecommunications (DOT) provides a grace period of approximately 15 days to RIM, Skype and Google to make a decision. The background of data requests such as conversation records is triggered after India’s security agencies could not declare a peek into the services offered by RIM and telecommunications operators.

Previously, in August 2008, the government has banned certain BlackBerry services until they can ‘read’ the systems. BlackBerry, along with Google’s Gmail service and Voice-over-IP Skype are mandatory under government security monitoring. Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the Bureau of Intelligence, in a meeting, decided to amend IT laws for foreign companies to provide data that can be read with the security and intelligence.

Google spokesperson admitted that until recently they have not received a request from the government. “We will comment after we get a letter from the department of telecommunications,” said a spokesman for Google, as reported by Techtree, Monday (07/05/2010).

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