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Mobile phones about to become electronic tags - a passport might be required to buy one - Tech Digest
If you're one of those people who likes to get angry about possible privacy invasions, this should get you nicely red-faced until well after lunchtime. As part of the vague, all-encompassing crackdown on anything to do with "terrorism," the government is considering adding mobile phones to its national database of who owns what - so you could be asked to hand over your passport in exchange for buying a cheap pay-as-you-go job...
Gary Cutlack