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Everything on earth has its own limit. The power of technology is no exemption.
Just this Monday, text messages regarding the spread of radiation scared the hell out of well, quite a percentage of our population. I received three similar text messages giving out warning that acid rain might fall in the afternoon of that day and nobody should be out of the house during the downpour. Hoax.
The Department of Justice tells NBI to probe on the whoever is behind the prank. On the other hand, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) says there’s no way they could trace the particular sender who started it all.
NTC’s solution to prevent prank text messages and other form of threats via mobile phones? SIM card registration. The Senate has been deliberating on the bill (Senate Bill No. 2644) regarding the registration of pre-paid SIM cards. Are you in favor or not?
Major pros: people behind bomb threats, SMS pranks, and text scams will be easily traced.
Major cons: pre-paid users’ personal information are required to be given out which will raise privacy issue.
For sure post-paid subscribers would agree. Well, they have registered their names and other information required by their selected network provider.
This is an issue of SECURITY vs. PRIVACY.
Should you, as a pre-paid subscriber, register your SIM card?
singapore’s been doing it. before you can buy a sim card the merchant would require you to submit your passport for scanning and registration.
sim registration would be very good for ph, it would lessen celfone related scams.
for me dapat lang. kasi dito sa qatar, di ka basta makakabili ng simpack/simcard without the required papers, like passport or residence id card. i agree with that. un lang mga gumagamit for illegal purpose tiyak kokontra. but we are entitled to our own opinion di ba?
so okey lang. god bless everybody! peace! 🙂
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