How important is your data privacy?
Traditional e-mail access over dial-up connections (on your cellphone) was pull based (and it is still for some cell phones): at login, e-mail reader polls the mail server to see if there is new mail, if so downloads it to mailbox in the user’s home directory. However, mail has always been pushed from the origin to the final email reader. This method (pull based) is expensive and it also requires user to take some steps to check mails.
BlackBerry became very popular when it offered remote users “instant” e-mail experience; new mails appears on the device as soon as they arrive, without the need for any user intervention. The success of BlackBerry forced other manufacturers to develop push email systems for their devices.
Until here, everything seems to be fine but when it comes to deliver emails. Normal process would be, an immediate deliver of your mail to the server of your recipient. Instead, BlackBerry wants all the mails to visit their mail servers first those are located in Canada and England.
France, doesn’t allow their key persons in government to use BlackBerry for any kind of mail exchange. BlackBerry says, that they are very secure and fast, but what is the reason of keeping a copy of your mail in their servers?
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