Guardian: Privacy fear over (new) plan to store email etc --- effects on society

[David_Biggins@usermgmt.com]

Agreed, but as I understand it, they are to be sold over the counter.

If cash is paid, there will be no identification, no?

Nobody is going to be prepared to go through a huge ID rigmarole for a
phone with only a few dollars of prepay credit.

## dave ##

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roland Perry [mailto:roland@linx.net]
> Sent: Thursday, 22 August, 2002 03:34
> To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> Subject: Re: Guardian: Privacy fear over (new) plan to store email etc
> --- effects on society
> 
> 
> In message 
> <7A22BCE2D43E9D46B2D0FB6E2071C4520154A3@pc1-swin1-4-cust84.oxf
> .cable.ntl.
> com>, David_Biggins@usermgmt.com writes
> >Given that in the USA they are shortly to introduce 
> disposable pre-pay
> >phones,   I think this genie is already out of the bottle.
> 
> The existence of a *disposable* phone says nothing about the user's 
> ability to connect it to a network without identifying themselves.
> -- 
> Roland Perry
> 
>