“When the right of life and the security of the state is at stake, the right to telecommunicate takes a back seat.”
Acting Minority Leader Vicente C. Sotto III stressed this to insist on the passage of his Senate Bill 2677 which seeks to eradicate mobile phone-aided terrorism and criminal activities by mandating the ownership registration of all pre-paid sim cards for cellular phones.
Telecommunications corporations, however, rejected the Sotto bill.
Lawyer Rodolfo Salalima, legal counsel of Globe/TM Telecoms, said the United Kingdom and the European Union did not pass a similar measure mandating the registration by buyers of pre-paid sim cards after a study showed that there is no causal connection between sim card registration and the diminution or prevention of crimes.
Sotto maintained that the benefits of having improving technologically-advanced phones does not always work for the betterment of society.
Pedro H. Herrera-Davila, head of the legal affair of the National Security Council (NSC) said the Sotto bill is consistent with the country’s national security requirements.
http://www.mb.com.ph/state-has-right-to-protect-self/
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