Union home secretary G K Pillai is chairing a meeting in New Delhi today to decide on the fate of Blackberry services in the country in the wake of security concerns. The meeting has been convened following Blackberry's Canadian maker Research In Motion (RIM) 's refusal to allow monitoring of the mobile phone encrypted services . The government wants BlackBerry to allow monitoring of emails and personal instant messages (PIM) sent to user devices. The government fears misuse of RIM’s devices by terrorists for communication. Officials believe, the mobile operators are in violation of provisions in their license regulations, which require them to establish the infrastructure for lawful interception of voice and data carried by their networks.AIR correspondent reports, RIM insists that the security architecture for its enterprise customers is based on a symmetric key system. This allows only the customer to create and possess an authentication or unique key for all data exchanged and stored in an encrypted format between the handset and RIM server. BlackBerry users’ data remains on the originating email account and so there is always the option of deleting mail from the handheld device while still keeping messages safely stored within their actual accounts. Security experts suggest that Indian authorities can demand installation of an electronic monitoring device on the BlackBerry servers – which may be run by RIM for its retail customers or on servers that are installed for RIM’s enterprise customers. Since data remains encrypted through all points of transfer between the customer’s BlackBerry Enterprise Server and the device, the government wants RIM to ensure that security agencies can read the data transferred between server and handheld, if need be. The meeting is to be attended by department of telecom officials and mobile services providers, such as BSNL, Airtel and Vodafone.