Sim card

[bigboy]

My friend told me today that there is going to new law when you buy a SIM card you have to register the SIM card in your name like show id when you buy it so when the new law come in where the it a legal to buy sex they can find you by your sim

[casman]

My friend told me today that there is going to new law when you buy a SIM card you have to register the SIM card in your name like show id when you buy it so when the new law come in where the it a legal to buy sex they can find you by your sim

Shite i hope not,what a load of shite.
I haven't heard anything like that.
But with this law coming in i can see an increase in sales.

[willie wacker]

Well lads buy now and avoid the Rush

[Sexy Sandy 69]

And remember that at the moment the law will only be coming into effect in the North, there is no date for the South.

Sandy x

[funlover12]

as regards this 'problem' I have news for you, its not the sim thats tied to your identity its the phone, otherwise why do you think tescos can get away with selling anonymous sims. every single phone just like every single sim has a unique ID number

[mature abby]

as regards this 'problem' I have news for you, its not the sim thats tied to your identity its the phone, otherwise why do you think tescos can get away with selling anonymous sims. every single phone just like every single sim has a unique ID number

you mean contract phone yes ? you can buy pay as you go phones lots of places

[Zealot7]

And remember that at the moment the law will only be coming into effect in the North, there is no date for the South.

Sandy x

The lack of a date in practice probably means it can likely be forgotten about for a long while, maybe even several years.

One thing everyone needs to remember is that the whole government is wrought with inefficiency and incompetence. They're invariably extremely slow to do anything, and extremely often make a mess of things.

as regards this 'problem' I have news for you, its not the sim thats tied to your identity its the phone, otherwise why do you think tescos can get away with selling anonymous sims. every single phone just like every single sim has a unique ID number

Well the network provider can indeed track your phone based on location, and also listen in to your calls if they so chose to do so. Any communication service provider will be able to do the same thing since they provide the infrastructure.

BUT... for them to actually do so and allow 3rd parties access to this kind of information is like throwing up all over their confidentiality agreement with their customers.

A big question should some sort of law like this come in is who's going to store the identity database? The government or the phone company? Can the authorities access it at a whim without any prior justification if they like? If it's the phone company, I would imagine any phone network provider would fight turning over the identity of their customers on a whim just like the Internet Service Providers have done so in the internet downloading related copyright cases of the past, because of that confidentiality agreement. There is no guarantee though.

Even in the event of a doomsday scenario where we get 1984-style surveillance of calls made between mobile phones here, there are always alternatives (don't you just love technology?) in the form of web-based VOIP services that are going to be very legally messy and problematic to get actual identities of people associated with them and also to eavesdrop in on them. Skype, WeChat, and Viber come to mind.

[sharkskin]

as regards this 'problem' I have news for you, its not the sim thats tied to your identity its the phone, otherwise why do you think tescos can get away with selling anonymous sims. every single phone just like every single sim has a unique ID number

You are wrong. The phone ID is hardly ever used. Most phone networks check it when a phone tries to register on the network. That is how stolen phones can be disabled. Beyond that the phone ID is rarely noted. It is the sim ID that is tracked.

[tom rambo]

Well lads buy now and avoid the Rush

willie i taugh the only sim you can get that you did not have to singn up for was tesco mobil

[Sexy Sandy 69]

willie i taugh the only sim you can get that you did not have to singn up for was tesco mobil

No if you go to any of the smaller shops & especially those that fix phones, they sell sim cards without asking for any details.

Sandy x