Daily Mobile

Bad news for blackberry users, good news for UAE’s spying division. I didn’t know this but I guess you can’t read blackberry messages because of their automatic encryption. Good job RIM! Too bad all those secret meetings and trade information is going to be leaked to the UAE. No privacy laws currently exist in the UAE.

At the heart of the battle is access to the data transmitted by BlackBerrys. RIM processes the information through a handful of secure Network Operations Centers around the world, meaning that most governments can’t access the data easily on their own.

Read more about it at the WSJ.

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How scary is it when a phone company gives up your data (GPS mainly) to authorities without a warrant? Sprint! Wake up! This is a big potential disaster for a company already bleeding in the mobile market. 8 million requests in 13 months by law enforcement officers. Sprint is rumored to have over 110 employees whose sole purpose is to aide in this practice without warrant or permission from the user.

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