Mobile Devices Contain Various Security Risks, Need Safeguards
Privacy advocates warn that the shift to using handheld devices for email, telephone calls and Internet searches has created a global gold mine for snoops and spies. Le Monde newspaper has reported that government officials in France are advised against using BlackBerry devices because the US National Security Agency (NSA) might snatch information from e-mails. "It is good for a government to say that wireless information is less secure so be very cautious what you put out there," Electronic Privacy Information Center senior counsel Melissa Ngo told AFP.
Mobile devices ripe targets for spies, Agence France-Press, June 23, 2007.
