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UK: Passports Will Be Needed to Buy Mobile Phones
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:08:37 -0700
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The Times Online. [snip] Everyone who buys a mobile telephone will be forced to register their identity on a national database under government plans to extend massively the powers of state surveillance. Phone buyers would have to present a passport or other official form of identification at the point of purchase. Privacy campaigners fear it marks the latest government move to create a surveillance society. A compulsory national register for the owners of all 72m mobile phones in Britain would be part of a much bigger database to combat terrorism and crime. Whitehall officials have raised the idea of a register containing the names and addresses of everyone who buys a phone in recent talks with Vodafone and other telephone companies, insiders say. The move is targeted at monitoring the owners of Britain's estimated 40m prepaid mobile phones. They can be purchased with cash by customers who do not wish to give their names, addresses or credit card details. [snip] More: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4969312.ece This is perhaps the craziest f'ing thing I have ever heard of... - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFI+3eYq1pz9mNUZTMRAqZyAJ93jDN8nvGLOoP7nuhEnOkLLqGr0QCgwJ97 vx8Zt7G7NZyKObTL8wCt8Hw= =SRwb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- UK: Passports Will Be Needed to Buy Mobile Phones Paul Ferguson (Oct 19)
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- Re: UK: Passports Will Be Needed to Buy Mobile Phones Gregory Hicks (Oct 20)
- Re: UK: Passports Will Be Needed to Buy Mobile Phones Drsolly (Oct 20)
- Re: UK: Passports Will Be Needed to Buy Mobile Phones quispiam lepidus (Oct 20)
- Re: UK: Passports Will Be Needed to Buy Mobile Phones Drsolly (Oct 20)
- Re: UK: Passports Will Be Needed to Buy Mobile Phones Imri Goldberg (Oct 21)
- Re: UK: Passports Will Be Needed to Buy Mobile Phones Rich Kulawiec (Oct 21)
- Re: UK: Passports Will Be Needed to Buy Mobile Phones Tomas L. Byrnes (Oct 23)
- Re: UK: Passports Will Be Needed to Buy Mobile Phones Tomas L. Byrnes (Oct 23)
- Re: UK: Passports Will Be Needed to Buy Mobile Phones Drsolly (Oct 20)
- Re: UK: Passports Will Be Needed to Buy Mobile Phones Dragos Ruiu (Oct 21)
- Re: UK: Passports Will Be Needed to Buy Mobile Phones Tomas L. Byrnes (Oct 23)