Rumors Are Rife That RIM Are About To Shutdown BBM Due To Rioters In England Using It To Co-ordinate Attacks
Despite responses from RIM during the night that they will not be shutting down their BBM service it is now looking increasingly likely that they will. Tottenham MP David Lammy has called on RIM to shut down its BlackBerry Messenger service overnight, in the hope that it will prevent rioters coordinating more attacks throughout England.
Lammy went on to speak on Radio 5Live earlier today where he said the BBM service was, "one of the reasons why unsophisticated criminals are outfoxing an otherwise sophisticated police force".
We have been speaking with RIM’s PR department today and so far there is no official word that this will happen, the message is to ‘stay tuned’ with a statement following (hopefully) in due course. We will keep checking back on this and as soon as we have an update we will let you know.
16,000 Police Now In The Capital
Image above showing Prime Minister David Cameron, left talking to Superintendent Jo Oakley (centre) during a visit to Croydon – image Getty Images
With 16,000 police now being drafted into the capital tonight to try to stem further riots and even calls for the army to intervene, England is quite a scary place to be right now.
You can read more on our earlier story about the riots here.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
