Despite warnings by French national defense authorities that their messages might be monitored on American servers by the National Security Agency, some officials are reportedly still using the smartphones in secret.
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The patriot act has provisions that allow the US Government to tap into any servers that reside on the US Soil for the sake of terrorism investigation. The frogs and others have no privacy with the Blackberry.
- Not that unusual...
- by Kant Lavar June 20, 2007 12:18 PM PDT
- The fact that foriegn governments don't use BlackBerries to transmit classified information is hardly unusual - Hollywood aside, the US government doesn't use BlackBerries to manage classified information of any sort. So the fact that the French and the Australians have concerns about the security of them is not unusual. That the French has said certian government officials can't use them period, however, is.
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