Wednesday, July 31, 2013

IT SIMs TO ME

 

What's unconstitutional about requiring SIM cards to be registered? What invasion to privacy or violation of human rights are they talking about?
 
Bombing the innocents, doctors and all, is heinous; and tracing of cellular signal activation of improvised explosive devices  is what is supposed to be the purpose of the registration requirement, as well as to point responsibility of other crimes like kidnapping.

If this will be the line of reasoning of those who oppose the move, then we might as well no longer issue license plates to all car owners.  The LTO has a data base on all MV owners (and drivers) but they are kept in confidentiality, except for law enforcement activities or Court Orders.  So why can't the same be done for all
 
SIM cards as in other countries like Singapore or Malaysia?

If we read SMS not intended for us, or eavesdrop or hack on phone conversations as in the "Hello Garcie" scandal, then that is invasion to privacy and transcript of said conversations are inadmissible in Court.

TELCOS do register individual purchases of SIM cards, but not those wholesale distribution to retailers. It's  the retailers who should then be required to do a reporting.

The issue of Human Rights had been in the forefront after the EDSA Revolution of 1986 and was one of the centerpieces of the Aquino Administration that it was institutionalized in the 1986 Philippine Constitution.

People had been talking about human rights that many have been " lost in translation." It was thought to be a unilateral right, minus the attendant rights of others nor its reciprocal responsibility or accountability.

Obviously only those with criminal intent oppose this move and attempt to hide their wrong-doings in erroneous concepts.  The principle of HUMAN RIGHTS should be a cloak to protect, rather than as a dagger to harm people.

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