Aug 11, 2010

The Real Reason for the BlackBerry Shakedown

Qusay Tech 9 Comments

So, after I made the joke about the blackberry messenger (BBM) ban, I knew something was bigger than the initial story. The big picture is that RIM has been trying to get into the Chinese and Indian (the fastest-growing telecommunications market in the world) markets, the largest markets in the world. However, the data which is transmitted through those devices and which is a marketers and intelligence agencies dream data is encrypted (as it always is, but not for the user’s protection, it is encrypted for the company which owns it and has the power to do whatever it wants with it) and there lies the whole issue. Any company with so much data on users, is supposed to oblige to the country which it operates in. The internet is still new, and most of it, is still uncharted territory where laws have not been made yet or not yet developed in a way to set things in stone. As you might know it is very difficult to make that happen when companies operate in a country that is far away from where the actual market is. RIM has been in operation for years now, and it wants to get into the Chinese and Indian markets for a while. China of course is notorious for internet and information control, as is Saudi Arabia and numerous other countries where they still cannot track your every movement by your social security number or drivers license or credit card

The story is, and the conclusion of it all is this, RIM told China that it will let it monitor the data somehow someway, India said it wants the same… and of course little markets like Saudi and the UAE said if they will get it, why not us… and there you have it