When and how RICA will affect you

Do you think RICA will prevent the criminal use of cellular phones/SIMs?

  • Yes

    Votes: 4 5.9%

  • No

    Votes: 64 94.1%
  • Total voters
    68
Identity theft

RICA is only creating a bigger market for identity theft. In the long run this will increase crime, not decrease it.
 
While it has it's problems I still see this as a step in the right direction.

The recent SMS banking scam highlighted that the Financial Intelligence Centre Act (FICA) was ineffective at preventing crimes using local bank accounts, and many predict that RICA will be equally ineffective.
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This is a bit of a broad statement to make. If you really look at it, no legislation can prevent an insider from doing harm if the insider has sufficient access given his/her level of employement. Further, FICA is an attempt to identify someone rather than block them from doing something. The employee and co were identified which means keeping record of who's who works! (ok, so in this case the records were not kept due to fica, but the nett result would be the same)
 
Its a feel good law, like stopping at stop streets, most people do it, but what hell, if I dont, nobody is going to do anything about it. So it will be business as usual.
 
so instead of stealing your phone the criminals will instead kill you and take your cell, it will take a few days/weeks for them to realise your phones been stolen.
 
As stated before, what are the chances that people in outlying reigons will have a "outlet" where they can register the sim's?

This act was definatly not well thought out, and in my opinion was just a easy way for the goverment to legalise phone tapping for any reason. Preventing harm is very difficult to disprove, anytime they want access to your phone calls they can just say they suspect you of planning to do harm...

If your suspected of any crime, they tap your phones and come up empty handed because your innocent, who then pays for your invasion of privacy? With the corruption around at the moment, this can be used by corrupt officials to get information about people as long as they say " We suspect the person is attempting to do harm" ,then your service provider must give them access to your phone.

I just cant see this being beneficial with the way the act is currently laid out.
 
They could not handle the equivalent law with gun licences, so how are they going to handle SIM's?
The shear volume makes it unworkable!
Anyway, if I was a criminal I would simply use the identity of some one else!
 
I can just see me being on holiday on the Natal coast and then the cops pick me up for a crime that was triangulated to a cell tower in Springbok, with a sim that's been registered in my name. :rolleyes:
 
got me 3 shiny new voda sims this weekend and had to provide jack in terms of identification. hooray for legal compliance.
 
How is the caravan (airtime shop) in the shacks going to help prevent crime? They put a gun to his/her head and make them type some hogwash info and Bob's your uncle. Or just steal sims that are already registered. I wonder if there are any statistics on stolen cellphones that one can viewed online. Perhaps Insurance companies can help out here.
 
How are the Police going to going to prioritise cellphone or even SIM card theft when murder, rape, assault and hijackings are rife?
This act isn't going to make anyone's life easier and I think if the authorities wanted to implement this act, they should've made sure everything went smoothly before forcing the responsibility upon the people who sell SIM cards, just because they're too lazy to see it through.
 
I tried to buy one to replace my stolen spare phone... and got proofed, 3 weeks ago at some little store.. for a 99cent starter pack...
 
Seems that most of the comments are negative and I dont blame them, lets get together as a mybb community and suggest an alternative, then submit it to goverment, see what they say.
 
Lazy said:
Agreed, but I still see the value of identifying mobile users, thus linking the SIM card to the ID number. It's 80/20 I know...
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Yup. I have no objection to the linkage.
I have a very real and serious objection to the creation of a non secure database that links my cell phone number / web account to me. It's not a good idea to encourage the building of non-secured resources criminals can use for identity theft.
 
Just train and pay the police properly. Let them deal with crime. Stop making crime our problem.
 
Voice Recognition

Lazy said:
Agreed, but I still see the value of identifying mobile users, thus linking the SIM card to the ID number. It's 80/20 I know...
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If you look back in other threads on the same topic -- you will notice a certain gentelman mention a myriad of ways in which they can already do this.

Voice recognition being just ONE of them.

This whole RICA nonsense is just smoke and mirrors for other stuff :mad:

MW
 
MidnightWizard said:
If you look back in other threads on the same topic -- you will notice a certain gentelman mention a myriad of ways in which they can already do this.

Voice recognition being just ONE of them.

This whole RICA nonsense is just smoke and mirrors for other stuff :mad:

MW
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Uhm, yes, but the means he mentioned will be used by fewer rather than the majority. That's why I said that I know this is an 80/20 scenario. As in everything in life, you can only control that which is within your control.
 
davemc said:
Yup. I have no objection to the linkage.
I have a very real and serious objection to the creation of a non secure database that links my cell phone number / web account to me. It's not a good idea to encourage the building of non-secured resources criminals can use for identity theft.
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Oh a very bold and unclassified +1 there! There is a definate responsibility to ensure that the data is stored safely, that almost goes without saying but sadly they probably need a reminder of that, lol.
 
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