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Dave Fawthrop
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On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 15:20:16 +0100, M Pitt <"me "@privacy.net> wrote:
| On 09/06/2004 13:55:04, in uk.local.yorkshire.moderated, Dave
| Fawthrop licked his pencil and scribbled in message
| > I fail to see the problem, I have half a dozen cards and other things which
| > identify me whenever I am out of the house. Worse my mobile tells the
| > police where I am, or have been, at any time, in the unlikely event that
| > they were interested.
|
| So why do we need another card?
|
| As to your mobile, the service provider can tell where you are, or
| where you make calls from but otherwise your whereabouts are not
| stored as a matter of course.
Do you listen to R2 news like fred?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3309751.stm
>>>
Their suspicions increased when it emerged Jessica's mobile phone could
only have been in a small number of places in Soham - Huntley's home among
them - when it was switched off.
<<<
They prosecuted the owner of the mobile used by the Omagh bombers
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=187&id=94992002
|
| >
| > I assume that both fred and M Pitt refuse to carry mobiles.
| >
| > Dave F
|
| You really will have to stop making assumptions. None of my mobile
| coms devices, bank or credit cards, driving licence or doner card
| are mandatory requirements. I only need to carry them if I wish to
| avail myself of the benefits that these items confer.
In view of the two URLs above do you wish to reconcider that?
|
| There is no benefit to carrying a mandatory ID card that carries
| biometric and other data.
No harm either, they get all the information they need by asking.
| Further, I have to pay for the priveledge
| of giving some faceless public 'servants' my personal information to
| do with what they please.
Death and taxes :-(
| On 09/06/2004 13:55:04, in uk.local.yorkshire.moderated, Dave
| Fawthrop licked his pencil and scribbled in message
| > I fail to see the problem, I have half a dozen cards and other things which
| > identify me whenever I am out of the house. Worse my mobile tells the
| > police where I am, or have been, at any time, in the unlikely event that
| > they were interested.
|
| So why do we need another card?
|
| As to your mobile, the service provider can tell where you are, or
| where you make calls from but otherwise your whereabouts are not
| stored as a matter of course.
Do you listen to R2 news like fred?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3309751.stm
>>>
Their suspicions increased when it emerged Jessica's mobile phone could
only have been in a small number of places in Soham - Huntley's home among
them - when it was switched off.
<<<
They prosecuted the owner of the mobile used by the Omagh bombers
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=187&id=94992002
|
| >
| > I assume that both fred and M Pitt refuse to carry mobiles.
| >
| > Dave F
|
| You really will have to stop making assumptions. None of my mobile
| coms devices, bank or credit cards, driving licence or doner card
| are mandatory requirements. I only need to carry them if I wish to
| avail myself of the benefits that these items confer.
In view of the two URLs above do you wish to reconcider that?
|
| There is no benefit to carrying a mandatory ID card that carries
| biometric and other data.
No harm either, they get all the information they need by asking.
| Further, I have to pay for the priveledge
| of giving some faceless public 'servants' my personal information to
| do with what they please.
Death and taxes :-(
