Under a new law published Monday, Mexico will start a national
register of mobile phone users by fingerprinting all customers in an
effort to catch criminals who use mobile phone to extort money and
negotiate kidnapping ransoms. The new law, which will be in force this
April, will give mobile phone companies a year to build the database
of their clients - complete with fingerprints and any other personally
identifiably information. Most of the phones in Mexico are prepaid
phones which can be bought and more minutes added without giving
personal information - but that will now change. Any new subscribers
will be fingerprinted when they buy a "throw-away phone".
More info at TechFragments.
New Mexican law to fingerprint all prepaid mobile phone users
Posted on Wednesday, February 11 2009 @ 0:35 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck