Hurrah, your work’s just given you a new BlackBerry Pearl handset, the first to come with a built-in camera. You’re now free to wander round the office taking photos of all your company’s secrets (i.e. Henry in Accounts’ tea-making routine) and selling them to the competition. But wait.
It seems that companies can disable the Pearl’s camera if they want to, either on a company-wide basis, or just for selected employees. I was going to go into an ‘what is this fascism?!’ rant, but it does probably make sense for businesses’ with sensitive information on the premises. Although you have to ask why they’d be giving you a camera-equipped BlackBerry in the first place.
(via Reiter’s Camera Phone Report)
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