mobiles anonymous
9:44am Friday, 2nd April 2004
In the first of a series of hot button mobile phone seminars run with O2, an expert audience considered children and their phones. A wide-ranging discussion, taking in playground phone envy to bullying-by-text, eventually zeroed in on anonymity is the key issue. Would requiring the registration of pay-as-you-go phones (monthly accounts are already registered, obviously) provide real bite for industry self-regulation? And could it work in practice? News that ID cards could be closer than we assumed makes this a more plausible idea.
In the first of a series of hot button mobile phone seminars run with O2, an expert audience considered children and their phones. A wide-ranging discussion, taking in playground phone envy to bullying-by-text, eventually zeroed in on anonymity is the key issue. Would requiring the registration of pay-as-you-go phones (monthly accounts are already registered, obviously) provide real bite for industry self-regulation? And could it work in practice? News that ID cards could be closer than we assumed makes this a more plausible idea.
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