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Passports will be needed to buy pay-as-you-go mobile phones

Repost | 21.10.2008 15:01 | Other Press | Repression | Terror War

'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.'


 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4969312.ece

Passports will be needed to buy mobile phones

David Leppard
'The Times':
October 19, 2008

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.

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  1. As well as curtailing civil liberties,this would loose phone companies including — James
  2. State Control! — Fightback
  3. have they thought of this?? — only me
  4. stupid — Me
  5. what a pointless piece of legislation — technology worker
  6. 'call to arms' — phantom mobile