The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, and India are now planning to ban Blackberrys in their countries. The Blackberry service uses encrypted connections between devices and the email and web browsing service, which are operated from North America. The above countries have a policy of monitoring the email, messaging and browsing of their citizens, and even of foreign visitors to those countries.

It seems that RIM, the maker of Blackberry, is looking to add security back-doors so that governments in these countries can spy on Blackberry users in those areas.