Saudi Arabia and UAE to limit BlackBerry Messaging
2010 August 3
UAE and Saudi Arabia have made plans to ban BlackBerry messaging usage, citing security concerns. Data sent via BlackBerry is encrypted and sent to offshore servers so it cannot be tracked by local authorities. There is some concern that what the gulf state governments are really after, is less security and more about encroaching into private lives. In Saudi Arabia the vast majority of BlackBerry users are individuals rather than enterprises and the device is often used to facilitate interaction between members of the opposite sex.
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