Further to last weeks story of Verizon Wireless staff members caught having a rummage through Barack Obama’s mobile phone records, the company has removed the staff from employment, or to be blunt, the sack.

The company suspended an unconfirmed amount of staff last week, for browsing the records, but it has emerged that the workers could only see call logs, times and the numbers that he called – they had no access to text messages or any of his voicemails.

A source at Verizon told CNN, “This was some employees’ idle curiosity.”

The fact of the matter is that president-elect Barack Obama doesn’t use the phone any longer, and has been inactive for a few months. Initial reports suggested that the details came from his beloved Blackberry, but in fact they came from a standard voice and text phone – that’s right people, even Obama kicks it old skool.

Verizon Wireless will continue to monitor the situation, and attempt to ascertain if any of the private data was leaked to anyone out-with the organisation. Rumours that the staff members involved will be taken away by a shady, unnamed government organisation and never seen again, have just been made up, entirely by me.

In a way you can understand why these employees had a peek. Be honest, if someone handed you a file with the records of all of Gordon Browns or the Queens calls, you wouldn’t even have a teeny, tiny little look? If you said you wouldn’t, then I’m afraid you are completely lying.

Barack Obama’s mobile phone related shenanigans seem ever ending, as it emerged last week that America’s next president has been ordered to give up his dream phone – his Blackberry, because of security rules that come with the job. The public would be entitled to read all correspondence that he sends from his phone. His one chance of keeping it is if he agrees to only receive emails and calls, not make any.