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Product: Cell Phone: Shared
humanpublicphone   (+8, -4)  [vote for, against]
defeating data retention laws using cell phone flat rates and t-shirts

people who have flat rate billing run around with t-shirts: FREE PUBLIC PHONE. end result: anonymity on the go.
-- erlehmann, Jan 11 2008

data retention http://en.wikipedia...wiki/Data_retention
wikipedia article for "data retention" [erlehmann, Jan 11 2008]

data retention linklist http://epic.org/pri...data_retention.html
extensive list of links related to data retention [erlehmann, Jan 11 2008]

Until you get questioned by the police about the guy who called up a hit man using your phone...
-- ye_river_xiv, Jan 11 2008


I think you need to explain the data retention laws thing a bit more. And maybe why they deserve to be defeated.
-- DrCurry, Jan 11 2008


This would make for an interesting sting ploy for gullible criminals.
-- RayfordSteele, Jan 11 2008


Why free?
-- Worldgineer, Jan 12 2008


why not free ?
-- erlehmann, Jan 12 2008


Because I have better things to do with my time.
-- Worldgineer, Jan 12 2008


//people who have flat rate billing run around with t-shirts: FREE PUBLIC PHONE. end result: anonymity on the go.//

End result: increased billing, undisclosed income, false charges for criminal activity, increased risk of exposure to bodily harm, unsolicited phone calls from CLID, spousal conflict, contractual conflict, phishing, phreaking, spamming, cloning, more paperwork (for company supplied phones), VAS rated calls, cost of t-shirt, missed calls, international calls, fashion police, and more...
-- 4whom, Jan 13 2008


spousal conflict, no. everything else, probably.
-- erlehmann, Jan 14 2008


I thought this would be a blue-tooth embedded in skin chip sort of thing, which someone should post, shirley.
-- dentworth, Jan 14 2008



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