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They do it in Turkey.
Ostensibly to crack down on phone imports.
In addition, if your phone IMEI isn't registered on the database the SIM is blocked after three weeks.
It'll happen in England. They won't be able to resist it.
@ Scooter -somehow the mandatory registration of mobile phones does not seem to have stopped terrorism or serious organised crime in any country where it has been inflicted on the population.
On many models of phone it is trivial to re-programme the IMEI (although, that is illegal in the UK).
We always need to step back and look at the big picture.
I am a free man.
I can buy, trade and travel as I wish without the interference of the state - to whom I willingly pay taxes and whose laws I obey.
If the elected government wishes to pursue laws that take away my freedoms, I have a right to oppose them, and look forward to doing so at the next election.
You’ve identified your small group of suspicious numbers. It’s either a knitting circle or a terrorist cell. A knitting circle are most likely to have bought their mobile phones with genuine documents. A terrorist cell, with fake ones. So, using the registration database, you can perform a simultaneous raid of all the addresses for a knitting circle at six in the morning, but not for a terrorist cell. The solution is to listen in to the conversations and read the text messages. You avoid raiding the knitting circle. You can work out what terrorists are doing and where.
The government already has access to geographical information for all calls sent and received and special note is made of the location where a new SIM card is first registered to its home network. While it might not always pinpoint a person down to within a couple of metres, at least it doesn’t depend on the honesty of the user. Companies such as ThropGlen claim to have taken this further. Their claim of tracking people over multiple SIM cards by performing statistical usage analysis, if true, makes the registering of names and addresses even less relevant.
What’s next? Passports required for Internet cafés? As restricting access to wireless Internet will require infrastructure changes, I see that being much further off. It’s alarming enough to think that mobile phones could be come restricted devices. That’s ignoring any law that could make it a criminal offence to post anonymously to blogs, forums and the comment sections of websites.
I think Naomi Wolf would view the UK as moving to a closed society, in a not dissimilar way to the USA. It will, however, be a very British kind of fascism. A milder, kinder fascism. No Guantanamo. We can’t even manage indefinite detention. We have the milder, kinder indefinite house arrest. No Blackwater. We’ll be kept in check by an army of accredited persons, with their little accredited-person badges. But, it will be much heavier on surveillance, as that’s less in-your-face. Query the central database for web browsing, to reveal those people who have read all three of newspapers A, B and C. Monitor their mobile phones. Track them with Automatic Number Plate Recognition. If it looks like they’re going to protest against the government, have the mobile networks temporarily disconnect them and have the police pick them up on their travels.
The news that the government now wants to track our mobile phone calls, texts, emails and internet browsing habits has got me enraged. For the past 11 years, this government has sought more and more control over its citizens, from installing 4.2m CCTV cameras, to the suggestion that we must respond to more and more intrusive questions when they complete the next census. It has simply got to stop.
On this occasion, I have done something about it, in my own small way. I have written an article outlining what the government is seeking to do and my views. But, I have also produced a ‘draft’ letter that can be personalised and sent to local MP’s. I am urging other likeminded people to reproduce the article, to include their own comments, after all, not everyone will agree with all my comments and then publicise it. Maybe we can start a programme where people start to bombard their MP’s with a demand that they do not support the latest data communication bill. The link is here if you would care to take a look.
http://www.power-to-the-people.co.uk/2008/10/public-call-time-big-brother-britain/
@ UK Voter - have you considered joining or supporting cross political party campaign groups like the NO2ID Campaign or the Open Rights Group, both of which are campaigning against this big brother / big nanny/ surveillance / secret police / database society or state, which is being inflicted on us by the inept and unpopular Labour government ?
Provided that people put your draft letter into their own words, rather than just copying and pasting it, they can conveniently find their elected representatives and send it to them for free, i.e. to their Councillors, MP, MEPs, MSPs, or
Northern Ireland, Welsh and London AMs via the WriteToThem.com website.
N.B. Members of Parliament usually only accept correspondence from their own actual constituents.
Even if all that you are doing is legally and peacefully challenging the secret bureaucracy and politicians, you should take a few precautions, some of which are outlined in our Spy Blog Hints and Tips for Whistleblowers, Journalists, Bloggers and Political Activists
wtwu - Thanks for your tips and support. I was aware of NO2ID, but not the Open Rights Group, I shall take a look now.
So does this mean buying phones like the xperia x1, off eBay because they are cheaper there, is not allowed? That my phone will not work because it was not registered here? If I am reading this, than that sucks!
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