My Way News - Dubai police chief calls BlackBerry a spy tool
My Way News reports: "Worries about spying by the U.S. and Israel spurred plans to sharply limit BlackBerry services in the United Arab Emirates [...] Dubai's police chief, Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim, said that fears of espionage and information sharing by foe Israel - as well as UAE allies United States and Britain - helped prompt the possible limits on the popular BlackBerry. Tamim told a conference on information technology that the proposed BlackBerry curbs are also 'meant to control false rumors and defamation of public figures due to the absence of surveillance,' according to a story posted Friday on the website of the UAE newspaper Al-Khaleej."

Comment: They blame the U.S. and Israel for their desire to spy on their own citizens? I'm losing all respect for RIM for caving in to all these repressive governments. And they have caved, we will never know the secret deals they have already made to stay in business.