Pre-paid phone users to need ID proof

marine1 said:
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20090629062634269C510676
NIA is going to start tapping phones like there is no tomorrow
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5 Minutes ago Anonymous wrote :
We are now under the rule of a bunch of black facists, the only thing they lack Swastikas and black caps

11 Minutes ago Anonymous wrote :
Fantastic

15 Minutes ago Anonymous wrote :
Are we turning into a Police State where everything is monitored? Zim has the same policies - where everything is available to the governement - are we following the same route?

18 Minutes ago Ryan Matthews wrote :
I think its a good thing. Anywhere else in the world you have to provide proof of ID (Australia, UAE, UK or the US). It's time we grew up.
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There's just no middle ground in SA, is there?
 
The banks did it so why is everyone against it?
 
I think it's a good thing but I am getting very sick and tired that law abiding citizens must always be making the sacrifices because of crime.

Everytime I pick up my huge bunch of keys I think WTF. The next crim I catch in my garden is going to get bashed up just that much harder for all the inconvenience and wastage they cause.
 
I don't like it - another step towards Big Brother IMO....
 
The new act will force cellphone operators, including Internet and email service providers, to keep SMSes, emails and voicecalls in an archive to allow for access by authorities.
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But I've got a Gmail address, I never use my ISP's email service - a pain every time i change providers...

none the less, I still see this as invasion of privacy no matter how you look at it!.
 
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Garyvdh said:
welcome to 1984
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+1 - this is bullcrap! :mad:

I find the excuse of "It's for your own protection" excuse pretty old now....

THIS people, is how they are going to inject babies with RFID chips, and nobody will be able to do anything. it will be made law, with this same excuse.
 
JimM said:
An excellent idea but!

1. It's bye bye to 99c SIM packs!

2. Not one independent business in the cellular trade has any idea on what the procedures are!

Head in sand time...
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I think the prices will be the same, just the registering will be the difference.

They will know by Wednesday, theres heavy penalties if they fail to register a sim properly.
 
wait, so how exactly are they going to enforce this?

You think a criminal is going to provide that info in order to buy a sim card?

He will just rob the cellular store owner of 100 cards in one go. Now the sim cards become another hot commodity and a black market for unregistered sim cards springs up. Are the cellular operators going to block activation if there is not details on file for that number? sounds like too much headache and paperwork.

Government FAIL... just come down hard on the criminals. Stop pushing your police work onto everyone else. Make it another five years in prison for any criminal using a prepaid cellphone and enforce it. That will make them think twice about using cellphones for crime.
 
This isn't about crime at all - they don't give a fsck people.

this is about control & power.
 
This act includes more than just registering pre-paid SIM cards:

"The new act will force cellphone operators, including Internet and email service providers, to keep SMSes, emails and voicecalls in an archive to allow for access by authorities."

There goes our last bit of privacy. :mad:

Also, do the cellphone companies and ISPs have the infrastructure to cope with all this data?
 
NameOfBeast said:
The email bit is unworkable? PGP is our friend.
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Yes, but does that not require both the sender and receiver to have it installed?

A bit unpractical to have all your contacts now install it on their machines just because some dope in the government read an article somewhere and thought it to be a good idea to implement here.
 
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NameOfBeast - it's doable all right.

yeah - and people thought google was bad when they kept "search history" for longer than 3 months (which WAS used for their services - trends, stats, and the "did you mean" feature...)

All google needed the data for was for a reason - to make google better. and it was done on a scale where they see "OK, 40% of people spell THIS word wrong, let google suggest this correctly spelled word" - no names, no e-mail/sms messages - just hhuge amounts of DATA......

What these guys are trying to do, is archive everything you have said and done, which can be accessed when needed.

not good.
 
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