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

[Ben Clifford]

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On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 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?

So prohibit cash payment for the cards.

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

Shops in the US (or at least in the area where I live) are already used to
checking people's non-mandatory government photo IDs for over-the-counter
purchases - for example, credit card usage and alcohol and tobacco
purchase. It is a rigmorole they *are* prepared to go through.

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Ben Clifford     benc@hawaga.org.uk     GPG: 30F06950
http://www.hawaga.org.uk/ben/

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