[LINK] Australian data breach notification law?

[Adam Todd]

Track people?  You mean, you buy a pre-paid, you give a dodgey name 
(many in the phone book), a dodgey address (heaps in the phone book), 
a dodgey other phone number (lots of those in the phone book) and a 
fake drivers licence number (easy to make up although if you are in 
crime, you probably have legitimate stolen ones at your finger tips), 
a fake DOB and voila, instant access.

[A stolen drivers licence (even an extract of RTA data) would be 
enough to register a phone and away you go.  Pity the poor real 
person who gets a Police Raid like the ones I seem to always get for 
no reason.]

Make all the phone calls you need, move around the city as required, 
when the credit expires, toss the phone and the sim and start over.

It's really not that hard to do, and it's done by criminals every day.

By the time authorities have caught onto the calls and tracings, the 
phone is in a bin and probably compacted.

Hmm, might make a film about this.



At 08:34 PM 3/05/2007, Michael Still wrote:
>Howard Lowndes wrote:
> > One of the biggest problems is the relevance of the data being sought.
> > The other day I signed up to Engin VoIP and one of their mandatory form
> > requirements was either your driving licence number or your passport
> > number.  What is the relevance of either to a VoIP service?  In point of
> > fact, it might be quite possible that some old dear, who wants to keep
> > in touch with the family by low cost phone calls, would have neither.
> > Needless to say, the licence number I gave was bogus.
>
>I think that's a government requirement. Last time I got a cell phone
>(many years ago) I had to show a license too. It was a gift for my
>mother in law, and the complexity of changing the "owner" of the phone
>is a story for another day.
>
>I think they do it so they can track "people of interest". You know,
>like people who have an opinion about things that differs from theirs.
>
>Mikal
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