How NY Gov. Cuomo Sidesteps Freedom of Information Requests With His Blackberry

New submitter wrekkuh writes "The Daily News is reporting that if aides of New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo cannot speak in person or by telephone with the Governor, they are told to use BlackBerry's PIN-to-PIN messaging system — a function that leaves no lasting trail because it bypasses data-saving email servers. Consequently, a Freedom of Information request for all e-mails to and from Governor Cuomo's office resulted in an empty reply from the Records Access Officer: 'Please be advised that the New York State Executive Chamber has conducted a diligent search, but does not possess records responsive to your request.'"

Re:freedom of Rim

[jbolden]

RIM isn't increasing their share and is falling slightly in terms of sales, but it is not quite that bad.

2010 global sales: 49.6m
2011 global sales: 51.5m

You get the impression from the US market where RIM has gone (users not sales) from 21.9m Sep 2010 to 12.5m in May 2012. But that still does represent sales, the average life of a smart phone is 11.5 months. In the US Apple's share of the computer market is just about about getting to the level of RIM's share of the smartphone market, to help put it in perspective.

RIM is deeply troubled, they aren't dead by any means. They've had a rough few years but they haven't done anything truly tragic like follow LG and later Nokia's lead and go with Windows mobile.

Re:Not a surprise

[Anubis IV]

Cardassians. Please spell it correctly. We wouldn't want someone thinking you were an honorless QuchHa' for your refusal to acknowledge your enemies properly.

Re:Good.

[jellomizer]

Governor Cuomo is a Registered Democrat.

Re:freedom of Rim

[SuricouRaven]

But lots of them do. And they don't get found out easily, as the evidence of hideing evidence is itsself hidden by the hiding of ev... er... yeah. Painful sentence. All they need to do is say it's a personal account, and do government business anyway. They only way they get caught is if a hacker gets in, as happened to Sarah Palin - although in that case, her personal email was only being used for rather routine setting of appointments and such. Official governer business, yes, but no juicy scandals.