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

[Ben Laurie]

Roland Perry wrote:
> In message 
> <7A22BCE2D43E9D46B2D0FB6E2071C4520154A4@pc1-swin1-4-cust84.oxf.cable.ntl.
> com>, David_Biggins@usermgmt.com writes
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> They still need connecting to the network. The phone company may insist 
> on that "rigmarole" (perhaps dependent on how many people demonstrably 
> get up to mischief with the phones and cause grief to the phone companies).

Like they do here, huh?

Cheers,

Ben.

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