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Devices, SIM cards and identities must be matched in Turkey, so that nobody does anything naughty. They also make the service providers keep tower signal logs w
by mrtksn 5y ago
Devices, SIM cards and identities must be matched in Turkey, so that nobody does anything naughty. They also make the service providers keep tower signal logs worth of many years, so it's common to prove your whereabouts in courts by requesting these logs.
On the plus side, you can see and manage all your data from the government portal. It's rather convenient to be able to see all the subscriptions(GSM, TV and so on) on your name and cancel them from there if you wish. Totalitarian control has its perks.
- sushsjsuauahab 5y ago>So that nobody does anything naughty Ah yes, now I know why all of those shootings and mass murders happened in the Turkish airport-- there was no system for mapping identities to SIM cards!! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Atatürk_Airport_attack https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Atatürk_Airport_attack
- mrtksn 5y agoThe security aspect was more of a pretext to force people purchase the heavily taxed officially imported mobile phones. Obviously, the usefulness for prevention of such attacks would be limited, it's more about identifying the offenders. It's also useful for surveillance, as you would expect a totalitarian state would like.
- AdamJacobMuller 5y ago> cancel them from there if you wish You can cancel such services from a government portal? That's nearly worth living under an authoritarian regime.