Mobile Phone News:

Now, there’s an intriguing question, as posed by the New York Times. Will Barack Obama, who used the internet and blogosphere, and not forgetting mobile phones, so effectively in his election campaign, have to actually give up using email and his beloved Blackberry when he takes up residency in the White House?

Y’see, the United States have a law, the Presidential Records Act, which would put any emails he sent on the presidential record, and open to public viewing. So, presumably that would even include private emails.

All of that boils down to one conclusion: it’s easier for Obama, once in the White House, to just give up his Blackberry mobile phone (which, from pics I’ve seen, looks like a Blackberry Curve 8310). Or, theoretically, he could use it in a sort of read-only mode, reading emails, but not actually replying to them, or sending them. Aides have tentatively put that idea forward as a solution, but I’ll be honest, it just makes the phrase “what an almighty faff” pop into my head. Mind you, there are other concerns, such as email security, and when you’re leader of the free world, it could be argued that having someone nick your emails is more of a big deal than when some pleb like me gets their emails nicked. After all, if my identity gets stolen, as bad as that would be (and yes, I do think identity theft is a very serious crime, and my sympathies go to people who have been victims of it), you can’t use it to launch nukes at Russia…

Basically, what it all comes down to, at the end of the day, is subpoenas, as the New York Times points out, and once again, the lawsuit-happy world and people out to dig the dirt will keep the leader of the free world enmeshed in the 19th century and safely away from any o’ these newfangled ‘mobile phones‘.

However…

Obama has already stated that he’s going to have a crack at dragging the office into the modern world, and expected to be the first president to actually use a laptop on his desk in the Oval Office.

So, will the law be changed? Will Barack Obama be allowed to keep using his Blackberry mobile phone when he’s in office? And if he does go into ‘read-only mode’ on his handset, will he, in fact, get himself a Blackberry Storm?

It’s important questions like that last one that need answering…

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