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Privacy and SurveillanceRegistration of Prepaid Phone Owners
These days, I'm not the kind of person you can expect to send a lot of text messages. On average, I think I only send around 5 of these messages. I am also not the type of person to reply a lot of messages, especially when I feel that they're not that important, and when they are important, I still prefer receiving a call.
And yet I receive a lot of messages. Not that these messages are from anyone I actually know. In fact, I'm receiving a lot of these messages from unknown people who refuse to identify themselves. If these are mere random greetings from people who have nothing better to do, then I wouldn't bother writing this post. But the thing is that I receive all of these radical messages denouncing the government. What's worse is that the sender of the message actually knew where I went for college. It's disturbing that this much information about myself is left spread somewhere. I can't pinpoint where, but someone definitely used a piece of information that I had to gave up. That usually happens, but can you imagine how stupid it is that I have no way to find out who the source of the text messages were? It is for this reason that I actually support the proposals to include registration for prepaid phone users. For postpaid users, there's no problem here, because the telecom providers have a database of all their postpaid subscribers. Prepaid is a different matter, though. Everyone can practically have a prepaid number. Everyone can have as many prepaid number/s as he/she wants to. And a lot are abusing it by using it as an effective stalking tool. A lot of critics say that this move will greatly reduce the privacy rights of a number of users. I say, hey, you got your postpaid subscriber information stored in some database. How could a prepaid user be any different? It is not even as if the information will be flashed in public anyway. You can talk about... Registration of Prepaid Phone Owners Tags: • prepaid phone • stalking • telecom • text messages • cell phones • anti spyware • phone number • phone privacy • privacy and security • Related articles:
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