U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama will have to give up e-mailing and his beloved BlackBerry once he takes office. The 44th president of the United States will face huge hacking risk and is also required by the Presidential Records Act to stop using e-mail. The Presidential Records Act requires the U.S. president to enter all of his correspondence into the public record.

Obama’s predecessors, presidents Bill Clinton and George W Bush, both gave up e-mail after taking office. Obama, the first BlackBerry user that made it to the White House, will do it to, his aides told The New York Times. George Bush sent a farewell email to 42 friends and relatives before taking office.

E-mailing was one of Obama’s habits. He gave up smoking before running for president and now he is required to renounce at this one to. However, Obama won’t lack a wide array of new communication although he won’t have his BlackBerry in his pocket. He will take office on January 20, 2009.

Obama made great use of his BlackBerry during his presidential campaign. He kept in touch with the campaign staff using the device instead of sending and receiving stacks of paper. Obama relied heavily on social network sites as well. He had as much as 130,000 friends on Twitter during the campaign.

"I think Obama is the first president who is addicted to the BlackBerry like the rest of us, and there's a lot of presidential records and archive rules on what gets stored and what doesn't," former Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart told AP.

However, a final decision on the matter hasn’t been taken yet. Obama will be the first president to have a laptop on his desk in the Oval Office, but it remains to be seen whether hell not only be America’s first black president, but also the first BalckBerry president.