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

[Roland Perry]

In message <3D6546CC.6070102@algroup.co.uk>, Ben Laurie 
<ben@algroup.co.uk> writes
>>   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?

Increasingly so, a trend we are importing from The Continent. As a first 
step, I believe some operators will only activate a PAYG phone on 
receipt of a call from a CLI-enabled landline, for example.
-- 
Roland Perry