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Mexican Government To Document Cell Phone Use
Alyssey writes "The Mexican government wants to have a database to track every cellphone number in the country (in Spanish, Google translation) and whom it belongs to. They want to tie in the CURP (Unique Registration Population Code in Spanish, like the Social Security Number in the US) with cellphone numbers. If Mexicans don't send in their number and CURP via SMS before April 10, 2010, their cellphone number will be blocked. The new law was published back in February and is going into effect now."
I don't have any information on prepaid phone providers in Mexico; if they're as prevalent as they are here in the States, how will this affect those users? Can you just register the phone as belonging to Inigo Montoya and be done with it?
Worst case, you need a fake id. Surely those are impossible to get in Mexico.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
We don't need no stinkin' log file! How dare they keep records of everything. AT&T, Verizon and Sprint would never do that! No way! If our telecoms actually kept records they would bill me for every minute I log any time on the network so that they could over charge me. In America, we know how to lie about the truth so we can steal from our customers, and then turn em into the Feds! We better build a bigger wall so their cellular towers don't vector any of our border towns!
Stories like this always make me very, very glad that I've never bothered to buy a cell phone. I mean sure, I know my government will track me somehow anyway, but at least I have the satisfaction of making the bastards work for their data.
By posting as an AC you really showed them. They'll be stumped for months on that one!
It would be more efficient to outlaw kidnapping and drug dealing.
THL phish sticks
Lucky Mexican dead folks. They will have cell phones and everything. Here, all they can do is vote.
Good thing I burned all mine off a few years ago, eh?
My name is Inigo Montoya. You blocked my cellphone. Prepare to die.
(My sig has been waiting YEARS for me to make a post like this!)
I am not left-handed, either!
I used to give the address of the local Police HQ.... :-)
That could turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy someday.
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