Saturday, January 15, 2011

mobile phone companies rat out demonstrators in Belarus

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/15/report-belarusian-mo.html

Mobile phone companies gave the Belarus government a list of mobile phone clients who were near a demonstration there.  This is a warning to activists in less democratic countries to consider this before you go to a demonstration.  If you have your phone with you, your provider has a record of which cell tower you were near.  The best solution, I suppose, would be to leave your phone at home.

This demonstrates that the tools that make ICA easy are not friendly tools in all ways.

I wonder what Verizon or AllTel would do if they were subpoenaed for such information here in the U.S.?

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