Sollten wir uns nicht mehr Sorgen um die Privatsphäre machen? Dem Artikel zufolge gibt es in den meisten Demokratien keine derartigen Gesetze. Warum sollte Armenien es haben, wenn es darauf abzielt, eines zu werden?
https://civilnet.am/en/news/1012739
Von Raffiaxper
8 Kommentare
How exactly is this different from the mandatory SIM kyc that we already have? Papyan’s post sounds like overdramatization
Leaving the country if laws like this are passed. Enough is enough. The EU can go fuck itself with the surveillance laws, too.
This is as meaningless as something can be. If you put a sim into the phone, you already give away your IMEI.
I mean what’s the extra thing they do?
>Privacy and surveillance concerns
>The proposal has drawn criticism from cybersecurity specialists. Artur Papyan, a cybersecurity expert,[ wrote on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/ditord/posts/pfbid0juGcxPvKcX47uNaWahzdkims8nQQb8xEzXsYitMud6EUvQAhDzVXsUZcMbWinBtYl) that the registry would allow the state to see who is on the network, which device they are using, and when. He warned that the other-digital-services provision could let data gathered to fight smuggling be repurposed for unrelated ends, including by private firms. Concentrating the records of some 2.5 million users in one system would make it a target for hackers, he argued, and a database outage could leave subscribers cut off — a risk he illustrated by pointing to the recent failure of a state portal used to register first-grade pupils. Papyan also questioned the anti-theft rationale, saying owners of stolen phones rarely get help from police, while the same tools could be used to locate protesters or critical journalists.Privacy and surveillance concerns
I mean I don’t like it either, i think it’s bs to make a person who moved to Armenia to pay tax to use your phone bought abroad, or even a local who purchased one when traveling, it’s complete bs, but i also don’t understand the concern here.
Sim cards or Esims already require a passport or an ID, in that regards, all the concerns here are already possible, to see who is on the network. As far as I know, someone can correct me here, a sim card already knows the type of device you’re using as they send specific mobile data configuration certificates to work with your phone.
Is this making a difference? other than the state knowing the exact phone model you have? even then it shouldn’t make a difference to my guess because vulnerabilities are in the software side of the device, not the hardware side, so same vulnerability would work on all devices, given the same OS version.
I’m currently in Kazakhstan and they also have this shit. So fucking annoying. And the process of registering is also buggy and slow.
I belihe they want to battle grey imports of cell phones. At Dubai airport, they will approach you asking to to bring an iphone to Yerevan.
this is to prevent gohst phones, phone with out a owner on the network used for criminal activities. and yes this could be for the EU rules. But the only reason for a phone without a registered owner is for illegal activities.
Its the same thing as Turkey, they aim to make a profit on phone imports. If you bring a phone into country without registering, you only get x amount of time before it shuts down. Phones bought in country is pre-registered by the importer, registering yourself costs money.
Turkey did it because everyone was going abroad like Georgia or Bulgaria, buying phones and coming back to avoid extra taxes. It has nothing to do with privacy.