From the Times Online
If you have an ex-boyfriend who is in MI-5 and trying to kill you but can't find you, you can buy a prepaid mobile phone for cash.
Until this new regulation comes in. Then you will be lumped in with drug dealers, money launderers, and (of course) The Terrorists.
Because your privacy concerns do not matter in the face of Terror.
If you have a body cavity search to combat Terrorism, how have the Terrorists NOT won?
Note: the terrorists will be forced to come up with (another) set of false papers before they can buy a phone, or -horrors!- drive across to France or somewhere else and buy one there.
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Even though that was said by one of the founders of the US, look for this sort of pernicious activity to come here sooner or later. After all, at one point, Englishmen were required to engage in practice with their bows, and now you'll just about be put in prison for life if you want to do that sort of thing outside the approved venues.
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