Military seizes control in Myanmar

Re:Military seizes control in Myanmar by fy20 on Monday February 01, 2021 @03:12AM (#25986625)

I find it interesting that Germany is one country which does this. A country which has strict privacy regulations and people prefer to use cash rather than cards, but they are happy to carry a device which can track their every movement and is tied to their government identification. This isn't an EU thing, there are quite a few EU countries where you can buy and activate a SIM without any ID.

Have there been any cases where the people have spoken out against such regulations, and they have been reversed?

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Re:Military seizes control in Myanmar by koheripbal on Monday February 01, 2021 @07:59AM (#25988226)

The history of terrorists using pre-paid SIMs/phones for both coordination and remote bomb detonation has necessitated this.

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Re:Military seizes control in Myanmar by salawat on Monday February 01, 2021 @09:47AM (#25989100)

Horse hockey. They'll still do the same thing, there'll just be larger networks of individuals who activate a SIM and then swap it with someone else. The terrorist excuse is no excuse at all. It's just a pragmatist's paving stone on the path to hell and tyranny.

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Re:Military seizes control in Myanmar by fy20 on Thursday February 11, 2021 @06:06AM (#26100278)

That seems kind of silly given you can easily buy a SIM card from eBay for another country that doesn't have such requirements.

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