Lebanon Assessing National BlackBerry Policy [BlackBerry]

Following the lead of neighbors Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon\’s government is reconsidering its own stance on BlackBerry devices amid regional privacy concerns. The Lebanese Telecoms Regulatory Authority is planning talks with RIM regarding its worries.

Lebanon is solely the latest country to vocalize its distrust of RIM\’s encryption measures, which forestall prying governmental eyes from reading BlackBerry messages. \” We are studying the difficulty from both sides-technical, service-wise, economic, financial, legal and security-wise,\” explained Imad Hoballah, a major regulatory official. [The recent York Times]

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