Icasa draft regulations require mobile operators to collect biometric data - to stop SIM swap fraud

[Jan]

Vodacom and MTN could soon be forced to collect your biometric data

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has published draft regulations that will require mobile network operators to collect subscriber biometric data.

This is to crack down on SIM swap fraud, the regulator stated.

 

[backstreetboy]

Lol they'll just cut your finger off.

 

[Pudding McTwinkle]

You will have nothing, and be happy.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Yeah, this isn't going to solve the actual problem... this is sticky tape and bubblegum to try and stop the dam breaking.

 

[Solitude]

Conspiracy people will have a field day with this.

 

[Johnatan56]

Makes no sense as can easily forge it, Sim swap fraud right now is due to people in the system performing them, how does biometric data solve the issue?

 

[ToxicBunny]

Makes no sense as can easily forge it, Sim swap fraud right now is due to people in the system performing them, how does biometric data solve the issue?

Cos like "systems" you know.

 

[Pudding McTwinkle]

Conspiracy people will have a field day with this.

This communication brought to you by the conformists.

 

[Thor]

Do these people know how Sim swaps happen?

Collecting my biometric data is not going to solve the crime syndicate issue at Vodacom.

Mybroadband please do a real article to educate people on where the actual issue is and how this is not at all a solution.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

yet another cadre enrichment scheme from ICASA?
aren't their troughs full now after the spectrum auction?

 

[MikeMike]

I wonder if the idiots really understand by creating all these non-sensical laws, one day, someone will have to enforce them and then we all suffer. Right now we have no enforcement on anything.

 

[dualmeister]

Spits at ICASA.
There is some DNA for you.

 

[Bigjay84]

More red tape and BS to reinforce the socialist utopia that is SA

 

[borro]

It's for your safety.

 

[Decarin]

Biometric data? This is Africa, that will be difficult to keep track of.

How goes the FPB with watching every YouTube video ever and giving them their approval?

 

[Hemi300c]

The Incompetent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) are as per everything anc a waste of time money and need to go.

 

[Ragnarök]

RICA ,FICA and now this is all to keep track of law abiding citizens .

Does zero to prevent crime

 

[Gudnews]

If it meant I didn't have to drive all the way to a branch to get scalped R35 for a SIM swap after answering annoying questions to boot, I'll consider it.

 

[FiestaST]

Only a matter of time till they ask for a jizz sample.

 

[dualmeister]

Only a matter of time till they ask for a jizz sample.

Not sure how the MTN sales guys are going to feel about collecting jizz samples