Innovative Privacy Feature Hurt Blackberry, Fomer NSA GC Says
Former National Security Agency general counsel Stewart Baker said that Blackberry’s innovative encryption efforts, which Google and Apple are planning to emulate, partially led to the company’s downfall.
He spoke at the Web Summit in Dublin, Ireland.
Reporting on Baker’s address, ZDNet said Baker told the summit that some countries restricted Blackberry’s efforts to market their products because the company wouldn’t fully cooperate with requests to hand over stored data. Those countries included Russia, China, and the United Arab Emirates.
