BlackBerry Exits Pakistan Amid User Privacy Concerns (blackberry.com)

Posted by timothy on Monday November 30, 2015 @01:01AM from the where-are-you-and-for-how-long? dept.

An anonymous reader writes: BlackBerry has announced that it will pull its operations in Pakistan from today, quoting a recent government notice which read that the company would not be permitted to continue its services in the country after December for 'security reasons.' In a blog post released by BlackBerry today, chief operating officer Marty Beard confirmed the decision: 'The truth is that the Pakistani government wanted the ability to monitor all BlackBerry Enterprise Service traffic in the country, including every BES e-mail and BES BBM message.' He added: 'BlackBerry will not comply with that sort of directive.'

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What they don't tell you ... by Qbertino · 2015-11-30 01:12 · Score: 2, Funny

... is that they only had 7 paying customers in Pakistan. ... Or something like that.
Nice PR move anyway - shame it's so blatantly obvious.

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