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Mexico will cut off mobiles to fight drug war
Asavin Wattanajantra
The Inquirer
4.9.10
MILLIONS OF MEXICANS will have their mobile phones cut off this weekend as the government takes action to disconnect unregistered phones.
If Mexico's government goes through with a new law on Saturday up to 30 million mobile phones not registered with an identity could be disconnected. The law is intended to fight organised crime, which is obviously a big problem in Mexico.
This is obviously something that wouldn't happen in the UK, you'd think, but when you realise that many of us are already registered through mobile phone contracts and we are tracked in so many other ways, the government wouldn't really need to enact anything anyway.
In Mexico and other countries cash is all you need to get a mobile phone. As there are a lot of unregistered phones about, the idea is that if they are registered with the identity of an owner it will cut down on things like kidnapping for ransom and drug related violence that are facilitated by anonymous phones.
Of course many phones still haven't been registered, with laziness and privacy concerns being named as big reasons why so many people haven't registered their phones.
Sure, you'd think criminals probably won't want to register. But then again the simple way for the drug cartels to get around this will be to steal somebody's phone and get them in trouble.
Link!
Asavin Wattanajantra
The Inquirer
4.9.10
MILLIONS OF MEXICANS will have their mobile phones cut off this weekend as the government takes action to disconnect unregistered phones.
If Mexico's government goes through with a new law on Saturday up to 30 million mobile phones not registered with an identity could be disconnected. The law is intended to fight organised crime, which is obviously a big problem in Mexico.
This is obviously something that wouldn't happen in the UK, you'd think, but when you realise that many of us are already registered through mobile phone contracts and we are tracked in so many other ways, the government wouldn't really need to enact anything anyway.
In Mexico and other countries cash is all you need to get a mobile phone. As there are a lot of unregistered phones about, the idea is that if they are registered with the identity of an owner it will cut down on things like kidnapping for ransom and drug related violence that are facilitated by anonymous phones.
Of course many phones still haven't been registered, with laziness and privacy concerns being named as big reasons why so many people haven't registered their phones.
Sure, you'd think criminals probably won't want to register. But then again the simple way for the drug cartels to get around this will be to steal somebody's phone and get them in trouble.
Link!
