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Children may access adult content using BlackBerries?

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It seems that RIM might be in trouble as it has a meeting scheduled in with Ofcom regarding the possibility of children being able to access adult content via the maker's handset.

As a quick reminder, mobile operators currently filter content as a part of the voluntary code of conduct - but lest we forget BlackBerries' services are based on RIM's own servers, this means that basic filters don't really work.

Ofcom said that RIM did not have anything to worry about seen as there were no consumer complaints, however a meeting was set up to discuss ways how to make sure children were protected when using the handset.

The tech firm was quick to underline that operators could always opt for using BlackBerry's own content filtering feature, although T-Mobile was the only network which enabled it.

According to a statement that RIM issued, the filtering support function was available to the company's partners free of charge.

However, websites of various mobile operators stated different reasons as to why they didn't apply content filtering on BlackBerries - some said that it "applied its own settings" other said it had no content blocking as yet.

RIM added that it would look into adding integrated content filtering features into its future models.

Categories: Mobile Broadband

Tags: Ofcom  blackberry  rim 

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