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In November the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) announced the mandate, outlining February 2017 as the deadline for operators to facilitate the ID registration scheme, which was ostensibly created to prevent online fraud and increase security in mobile banking.
[...] Thailand's existing 106 million mobile users will not be constrained to register their current devices. This effectively gives non-ID SIM usage in Thailand a withering vine of 3-7 years, based on current upgrade patterns and smartphone turnover.
[...] In January of 2016 Saudi Arabia also announced a fingerprint ID registration scheme, which similarly does not include retroactive registration for existing users or devices. According to a report by the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC), mobile subscribers dropped by three million to 51 million in the wake of the legislation, under which information on the SIM is shared with the National Information Centre to confirm the authenticity of the buyer during transactions.
(Score: 2) by Zz9zZ on Thursday February 02 2017, @06:32PM
Keep educating people, keep pointing out the futility of these measures. My hope is that eventually people realize how dumb these security measures are and how they actually make people less secure. However, that will require the information to be abused for a while... so yay! Hello increased identity theft, guess we'll be fighting you for a while.
Then again I tend to be optimistic. Over 15 years now and we still have stupid airport security. I always underestimate the momentum of entrenched existence with respect to government, tends to be very hard to get rid of shitty legislation. 10x harder when that legislation gives some bureaucrats / politicians more power, and as we all know knowledge is power! GO JOE! *ahem* sorry just some childhood propaganda slipping out.
~Tilting at windmills~