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Mexico to fingerprint mobile-phone owners
Cory Doctorow,
boing boing
Friday, Dec 12, 2008
Mexico’s just passed a raft of invasive surveillance rules that require phone companies to get the fingerprints of everyone who buys a phone:
Also Tuesday, the Senate voted to create a registry of cell phone owners to combat kidnappings and extortions in which gangs often use untraceable mobile phones to make ransom demands.
Telecoms would be required to ask purchasers of cell phones or phone memory chips for their names, addresses and fingerprints, and to turn that information over to investigators if requested.
At present, unregulated vendors sell phones and chips for cash from streetside stands. It is unclear how such vendors would be made to comply with the new law.
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December 12th, 2008 at 5:51 am
Cue the black market in second hand/imported phones and old pay as you go simcards!
December 12th, 2008 at 6:04 am
A mobil-phone is a commercial article, the company that makes them depends for it’s existence on sales of said article.
Stop buying them…
Either the shops will go broke or stop cooperating with the g’ment. In a worst case scenario the whole m-p branch may disappear. Something I for one don’t have a problem with
December 12th, 2008 at 7:10 am
go back to using smoke signals !!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....annel_page
goldieshouse.piczo.com
December 12th, 2008 at 8:12 am
Another straw-man freedom attack. It is the Mexican “investigators” (both police and military) who are often found to be complicit in the major crimes. What a joke.
December 12th, 2008 at 8:27 am
“Go back to using smoke signals !!!!!!!!!!! ” NO you can’t use smoke signalS , you have to use Carrier pigeon to send meassages , they have a new divIsion at Fedex & UPS for this service, remember we have Gobal warming , gotta cut back on co2 emmission !!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL !!!!
December 12th, 2008 at 9:21 am
It’s real easy. Throw away these cancer causing devices. See how the telecommunications companies like that. They’ll back peddle so fast they’ll be offering us their fingerprints. Remember: “They are few. We are many.”
December 12th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Why bother. All phones are chipped and that is a much more efficient way to hunt us down. Doubt it? There are programs that parents can purchase to follow their kids every move. Creepy. the maaaad, sheered sheep
December 12th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
It’s a VERY bad idea to be using cell phones to begin with. Every single time you use one, you’re literally cooking your brain cells with microwaves. And the damage is cumulative. And whatever damage doesn’t get repaired. It’s permanent. There really isn’t a “save level” of microwaves. The more the microwaves you’re exposed to, the more damage your body suffers.
Kids, just say no to cell phones.
Maybe the Heechee needed a constant small dose of microwaves to keep healthy. But we aren’t Heechee.
Personal pet peeve grammar police time: notice my correct usage of “you’re” and “your”?
“You’re” is a contraction of “you are”.
“Your” is a word meaning that something belongs to you.
The two terms have completely different meanings and can’t be used for each other. Not unless you want other people to consider you a moron who can’t properly use the english language. Which can really knock the wind out of your sails if you have something serious to say. If people are too busy laughing at you, they won’t be listening to you.
December 12th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
LOL!!!! I was starting to worry about that. But i managed to buy one from a friend that wont be using his mobilephone anymore. That way i remain “private”. Every company here in Mexico is complying with the rule but NEXTEL states that it will be difficult for them to register every owner in Mexico, including all the phones that are used by factories and bussineses alike. And guess which radio call capable phones are preferred by drug gangs??
I currently live in Monterrey,Mexico and there was a recent incident here in the U.S. Consulate. Some supposed drug cartel members shot at the embassy in driveway style. But the funny thing is that the calibers match with the ones used by state police officers…
December 13th, 2008 at 11:35 am
More sickness, eroding honest citizen’s rights as a convenience for law enforcement blunders!
But that is only ‘the excuse’ as certainly the Illuminate has shown their hand and main plan as that being identification, tagging, survelliance, containment and eventual genocide!
But hey crooks do use cell phones too, and a likely excuse is better than none!
December 13th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
I USE SKYPE.. !!! i think is the best.. and CHEAPEST WAY !!! Fuck TELCEL I only have the cellphone in case of emergencies. !! I think is the best way. !! Now ill take more care of the cellphone that i already have so i wont have to buy a new one. !
December 13th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
I do not own one, they mess your brain up.
December 13th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Have we forgotten that that crooks are not worried about governmental controls. That’s why they are crooks. They will just steel your cell-phone and do their crime. So now there is more crime. Oooo smart governments!
December 14th, 2008 at 3:00 am
Mexico have just entered into a new control scheme, and mobile-phones have become an important tool, in this case since June of 2007, under the law of “Number Portability” (Diario Oficial de la Federación 06-12-07). Wich consist in that no matter if you´re in this or that cell-phone company, you´ll keep your phone number, even if you decide to change of company every other day, and now the fingerprint system puts the game in the next level, we´ll be one step closer to RFID´s and The Bilderberg´s sick dream. WE NEED HELP HERE politicians gone mad making laws against FREEDOM OF SPEECH and FREEDOM OF POLITICAL DIVERSITY among others, I´m afraid this has gone so far, WE HAVE TO STOP IT RIGHT NOW…!
WHAT CAN WE DO? this is THE question, WHAT CAN I DO? I´m listening!
December 14th, 2008 at 3:03 am
VIVA LA VIDA!
VIVA LA LIBERTAD!
VIVA LA HUMANIDAD!
COGITO ERGO SUM…