RICA privacy concerns

The entire RICA system is flawed and open to abuse.

RICA is one of government’s key crime prevention initiatives towards making South Africa a safer place to live and work
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FAIL!
 
The first court case involving RICA as proof of ownership of a cellphone SIM will throw the entire act into the dustbin.
When it is shown how easy it is to fraudulently register under someone else's details for RICA the use of this system will fall into disrepute.
 
RICA was never ever developed to make SA a happy place. As always it is about control. Just create a general need for it by exploiting fear, and the public will do whatever it takes. What a bunch of evil bastards.
 
Garyvdh said:
The first court case involving RICA as proof of ownership of a cellphone SIM will throw the entire act into the dustbin.
When it is shown how easy it is to fraudulently register under someone else's details for RICA the use of this system will fall into disrepute.
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Correct! There were supposed to be a regulation stating that if you register only one sim the system will be locked so that no one else can add another in your name, then if you need more than one, you make a special application including companies and parents who needs to add kids' cellphones to their names... finish and klaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar.
 
“If you really want to remain anonymous, use a public telephone in an airport, station, or any public place,” Ambrose advised.
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Errr... no. When you want to remain anonymous do not make the call from a place full of CCTV cameras. Especially because it is probably easier to get access to CCTV footage than it is to get access to your phone records. To stay anonymous go to the seediest internet cafe you can find outside of your normal travel patterns and pay cash.
 
lol "they" can and already have listen to eveything going on. no court order needed
 
My privacy concerns revolve mostly around who has access to your personal information once you've been forced to hand it to your cellular providers. I've heard rumours about people being burgled shortly after handing their proof of adress details to be RICA'd. Coincidence? Wild speculation? Who knows. What I do know is that the cellular providers do not screen their employees as carefully as the banks...

Juice
 
The damage has been done. The only thing way to fix this is to cancel all the RICA and redo it more controlled, but
the fundamentals (lack of physical address for some) is flawed so it won`t mean much anyways.

Juice said:
My privacy concerns revolve mostly around who has access to your personal information once you've been forced to hand it to your cellular providers. I've heard rumours about people being burgled shortly after handing their proof of adress details to be RICA'd. Coincidence? Wild speculation? Who knows. What I do know is that the cellular providers do not screen their employees as carefully as the banks...

Juice
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A little sidetracked, but this morning got a request for my cellphone number and address to be entered on someone`s Facebook address book :wtf: And people worry about RICA. People are giving their pirvacy away for free, imagine the spam pit. I already get way more crap in my email since I opened it (I started questioning my original intention for opening it to begin with)
 
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Enough with the RICA atricles already! Who the **** cares anymore?

We knew beforehand it wasn't gonna make one iota's difference to crime & we knew beforehand criminals will circumvent this easier than stealing candy from a baby.
What I personally didn't know was that this was "one of govt's key crime prevention initiatives".

I guess its safe to say we are in deeper **** than I thought.
 
I wonder if crime prevention will have a better impact once the government itself is regulated.
 
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