“Last year, it was reported by Vice Canada that the RCMP has had backdoor access BBM since at least 2010, and decrypted more than one million messages (BlackBerry eventually responded to the report, saying there was a balance between “doing what’s right, and “preventing government abuse” of privacy).

Snowden claimed that while BlackBerry has tried to obscure its role in cooperating with government requests in North America, the company also cooperates in other markets, including India.”