UN technology chief has said that the Canadian company, Research in Motion (RIM), the makers of BlackBerry, should grant access to the government agencies across the world to monitor data sent and received on their BlackBerry devices so that terror threats can be minimized to a great extent.

Hamadoun Toure, the secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Unit (ITU) said that the countries that are facing terror issues have the right to ask the access grant to the encrypted data of the BlackBerry phones, and that the phone manufacturer should do nothing but give full access to the data to make the world a better place to live. "Those are genuine requests," he told the AP news agency. "There is a need for co-operation between governments and the private sector on security issues."

India, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates are the countries that have previously threatened to block the services of the BlackBerry phones. Lebanon, Algeria and Indonesia have also raised the same security grounds to ask BlackBerry the access grant.

On the other hand, Civil rights activists have argued that the whole controversy is due to the government's lack of security and frustration over their inability to eavesdrop on BlackBerry using citizens. It is yet to see what BlackBerry will have to face in the future.