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Mexico to fingerprint mobile-phone owners
Cory Doctorow,
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Friday, Dec 12, 2008
Mexico's just passed a raft of invasive surveillance rules that
require phone companies to get the fingerprints of everyone who
buys a phone:
Also Tuesday, the Senate voted to create a registry of cell
phone owners to combat kidnappings and extortions in which gangs
often use untraceable mobile phones to make ransom demands.
Telecoms would be required to ask purchasers of cell phones
or phone memory chips for their names, addresses and fingerprints,
and to turn that information over to investigators if requested.
At present, unregulated vendors sell phones and chips for cash
from streetside stands. It is unclear how such vendors would
be made to comply with the new law.
Mexican
congress approves widening police powers
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