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Yet, in EU, when you use prepaid cellphone, you can be eavesdropped for no reason, only because it is prepaid cellphone.
by ghostdiver 13y ago
Yet, in EU, when you use prepaid cellphone, you can be eavesdropped for no reason, only because it is prepaid cellphone.
- pygy_ 13y agoI didn't know that. It plugs a hole in the targeted surveillance programs, at the expense of all prepaid users. The target demographics for prepaid is mostly kids and teens, poor people, and people concerned about their privacy, split between sensitized geeks, unfaithful lovers and criminals. For the first two demographics cheap monthly plans are now emerging (in France, Free offers two hours of talk and infinite SMS for 2€ per month and unlimited talk, SMS and 3GB of data for 20€ per month). It sucks for the last three. On a slightly related topic, in demonstrations, people caught without a cell phone during an ID check often end up arrested for "administrative reasons".
- redblacktree 13y ago> On a slightly related topic, in demonstrations, people caught without a cell phone during an ID check often end up arrested for "administrative reasons". So the likely reason for this is so that they can get an accounting of who was there, right? Where are you referring to?
- pygy_ 13y agoI guess it's because no cell phone means no mean to track you remotely, which can otherwise be done, even if your phone is turned off. It is definitely taken as suspicious. Source: an alter-globalist activist acquaintance who demonstrates (peacefully) every other day.
- ahel 13y agoThank you, I didn't know it. Any source for this claim (so I could dig deeper)?
- chopin 13y agoCitation, please?