Video: RIM gets 60-day reprieve from India
In this CTV News Channel interview from August 30, I’m asked to comment about Research in Motion’s 2-month reprieve by the Indian government, which gives the Canadian smartphone maker more time to offer a way customer data — i.e. instant messages and emails — can be monitored for national security purposes. Do you think RIM should work with the Indian government on a solution or would they lose credibility for making such concessions?
If this was going to happen in Canada or the US and many other countries yes I would not agree with it. But we are not talking about these countries and something we forget in North America is our freedoms are not others. As a global company RIM has to work with countries and follow their rules and regulations even if they don’t agree. Too often we are pushing our idea’s and laws on others, one of the reasons we are not liked too much in some countries. RIM has the choice to take the moral high road and not make those changes, but that would be a very difficult decision and one I believe they will not make. Business sense tells you they have to make the changes at least at some level.
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