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A couple months of wrangling between the United Arab Emirates and RIM over the overseas storage of BlackBerry data have come to a close today, with a ban on email and BBM being lifted. Hear the joyous clicks of BBMs!
The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority said that BlackBerry’s data services ” are now compliant with the UAE’s telecommunications regulatory framework,” however’s not known whether RIM obliged and agreed to housing a knowledge center inside the Emirates, as per the govt’s requests. Perhaps they handed the govt. security access?
Either way, because of this UAE residents’ communication will now be monitored for potential security threats, and that other countries-similar to India -might be hardening their stance in talks with the Canadian RIM. [ WSJ ]
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