Vincent Arnold

Commentary: I typically don’t just post or link to every information security news item out there. For one there are waaay too many and two, I just don’t have the time. As some have noticed, my posts mostly involve privacy or breach related news. So, to be expedient, I post on compelling news or rulings on those topics and comment as needed. Well, this is compelling privacy news and I am commenting…Where does this end? This march down the path where governments want to know anything and everything will not end until people say enough. Honestly, it seems like everyweek, another agency, regardless of country, wants to read or have access to private information. In the U.S. we are “supposed” to have protections safeguarding our privacy. Hmm…yeah, we are supposed to….But hey this all good since I’ve got nothing to hide, right?

DoT warns Blackberry service providers
Press Trust of India / New Delhi March 24, 2008

The government has asked telecom companies to make possible within 15 days, monitoring of content transmitted through Blackberry or stop the service that is already under official scanner for security lapses.

The directive has been issued to the respective service providers to work out with officials of Blackberry licensor Research in Motion (RIM) of Canada to provide fool-proof security system in the country, senior officials in the Department of Telecom (DoT) said.

If the services are stopped, over four lakh users of Blackberry would not be able to access this premium service which enables users to send and receive e-mail in the form of SMS.

Source: Business-Standard

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 at 5:04 pm and is filed under Privacy.