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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | December 2007 
Mexico Regulator: Cellphone Database Will Not Cut Crime
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Creating a data base of cell phone users would not be an effective way of combating the use of phones to carry out criminal acts, José Luis Peralta Higuera, a board member of Mexican telecoms regulator Cofetel, was quoted as saying by local press.
Mexico's lower house recently proposed reforming article 68 of the national telecoms law to oblige mobile telephony concessionaires to gather and hand over to authorities details of all registered users.
According to the report, as 90% of users are prepaid, details such as names and addresses are not required at the moment of purchasing a phone.
However, according to Peralta, as addresses can change, a more effective method to track phones used for criminal acts would be to make geographic location systems an integral parts of all cell phones. |
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