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

[Ken Brown]

But this has been the case in UK for 5 years!

David_Biggins@usermgmt.com wrote:
> 
> 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
> >
> >