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Saudi, UAE set to ban some Blackberry features | Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have decided to ban some functions of Blackberry phones due to security concerns. The UAE is set to block
emailing facility, internet access, and instant messaging service to other Blackberry
handsets. Saudi Arabia is to ban the use of the Blackberry to Blackberry instant
messaging service. Both countries say they are unable to monitor such communications
via the handsets since the Blackberry handsets automatically send the encrypted
data to computer servers outside of the two nations. The UAE ban will come into
effect in October, while Saudi's move will begin later this month. Abdulrahman
Mazi, a board member of state-controlled Saudi Telecom, said the decision is intended
to pressurise Blackberry's Canadian owner, Research in Motion (RIM), to release
data from users' communications "when needed", reports The BBC . The UAE's telecoms
regulator, TRA , said the lack of compliance with local laws raised "judicial,
social and national security concerns". While RIM is yet to comment on either
case, the decision may unsettle some 500,000 Blackberry users in the UAE, and
400,000 in Saudi Arabia. |
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