1984 - The Labour handbook

[Bob Dalek]

I had to show a passport when I bought a 'pay as you go' phone in Frankfurt in 2003. I saw no problem with this personally, as it was designed to stop criminality.

I hadn't realized your avatar was, in fact, your passport photo.

[Moscow Mule]

I had to show a passport when I bought a 'pay as you go' phone in Frankfurt in 2003. I saw no problem with this personally, as it was designed to stop criminality.

Yes, but the Germans don't monitor every phone call you make on said phone do they?

[DimPrawn]

I had to show a passport when I bought a 'pay as you go' phone in Frankfurt in 2003. I saw no problem with this personally, as it was designed to stop criminality.

Yes, I'm sure the criminals were totally screwed by this. Oh no, we can't be criminals anymore! Let's all retrain as Human Rights Lawyers. Hang on, same thing!

[zathras]

Passports will be needed to buy mobile phones

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle4969312.ece

" Everyone who buys a mobile telephone will be forced to register their identity on a national database under government plans to extend massively the powers of state surveillance.

Phone buyers would have to present a passport or other official form of identification at the point of purchase. Privacy campaigners fear it marks the latest government move to create a surveillance society.

A compulsory national register for the owners of all 72m mobile phones in Britain would be part of a much bigger database to combat terrorism and crime. Whitehall officials have raised the idea of a register containing the names and addresses of everyone who buys a phone in recent talks with Vodafone and other telephone companies, insiders say.
..............."

I liked this comment:

everyone just swap phones .

Benzo, Nr Chelmsford,

Benzo, benzo, benzo

Message to Gordon: 1984 was a novel, not a manual

[DodgyAgent]

I had to show a passport when I bought a 'pay as you go' phone in Frankfurt in 2003. I saw no problem with this personally, as it was designed to stop criminality.

That's how the Gestapo would look at it.

[rootsnall]

I was talking to an Aussie barmaid about that last nigh. “That’s creepy”, was her first response. The reason why I asked her, and she confirmed it, was to check on the secondary market in pre-paid phones: as someone leaves they pass/sell the phone on to a new arrival.

They have had to prove ID in Oz for years.

[Sysman]

I had to show a passport when I bought a 'pay as you go' phone in Frankfurt in 2003. I saw no problem with this personally, as it was designed to stop criminality.

designed to:

1. snoop on you
2. collect marketing information to sell to the highest bidder

[Moscow Mule]

More blatant advertising of shoddily designed wares...

http://www.cafepress.com/CUKKERS

I might spend some more time making these look less amateurish when I'm not at work...

[HairyArsedBloke]

They have had to prove ID in Oz for years.

Sorry, I should have given more detail of the conversation. It included the plans to record the details of all calls etc. That's the bit she thought 'Creepy'.

[snaw]

They have had to prove ID in Oz for years.

What for sim cards/phones etc?

Not the last two times I've been there and bought them I haven't.