In Mexico, It's Digits for Digits

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	In Mexico, It's Digits for Digits

Taylor Buley

2-11-2009 4:42 PM

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mexico, mobile, mobile phones, crime, security

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f661e076-d4af-4745-8134-1fb58fe0a8fb/D0E23069-B7F4-4B13-A858-611720A0C0B6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/951/1050951/mexican-mobile-users-fingerprinted" href="http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/951/1050951/mexican-mobile-users-fingerprinted" style="font-size: 11px;">www.theinquirer.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/951/1050951/mexican-mobile-users-fingerprinted"><P><IMG alt="FINGERPRINT2" src="http://www.theinquirer.net/img/11427/FINGERPRINT2.jpg" /><STRONG>A NEW LAW</STRONG> is demanding that, as of April, Mexican mobile phone users are to be fingerprinted and treated like dirty criminals, in an attempt to foil violent crime and kidnappings.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/951/1050951/mexican-mobile-users-fingerprinted"><P>Mobile phone companies have been told they have a year to build up a proper client database, complete with guacamole-stained prints.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/951/1050951/mexican-mobile-users-fingerprinted"><P>The Mexican congress passed the bill after being told there were about 700 criminal bands in Mexico [Mariachi bands? - Ed], some who even had the audacity to order kidnappings, extortions and drug deals on their cell phones from prison.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/951/1050951/mexican-mobile-users-fingerprinted"><P>The government reckons if it could only get its hands on mobile users' fingerprints, it could get right to work, busily matching menacing calls and chilling messages to the real owners of the devices. The one snag in the plan, however, is that the majority of Mexico's 80 million mobiles are prepaid handsets with pay-as-you-go SIMs.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D0E23069-B7F4-4B13-A858-611720A0C0B6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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