South Korea provokes teenage smartphone privacy row
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#2How do they know that the phone is used by a teenager? I expect that the SIM is on one of the parents but I don't know how that usually works in Korea.
Re: South Korea provokes teenage smartphone privacy row
#3Is this enforced by the OEM ROM? Won't flashing a custom rom on your phone bypass it? How do they know the user is within the age group that is required to install it? If 3rd party apps are supported for this is there an app that either has a "hidden" disable setting or an app that pretends to have the functionality but in reality does nothing. Won't the infrastructure for a product like this be a large target for hackers? Is it enforced by the SIM card? Will it automatically be disabled when the user becomes old enough not to have the app installed?
Re: South Korea provokes teenage smartphone privacy row
#4This shows how thin is the layer of democracy in the society.
"South Korea is a vibrant democracy. It's had free and fair elections since 1987."
(so it is 28 years, this is only about 5 years more than nations in Eastern Europe who escaped Soviet Russian dictatorships).
"Major-General Park Chung-hee took power in a coup in 1961.
He was a strongman who utilised brutal methods - but he also dictated that industries be created.
Under his direction, the South Korean economic phenomenon was born."
(this also raises the question why dictators in the north were not able to do the same)
"Koreans know that. And the current president knows that. She should do - Park Geun-hye is the dictator's daughter. "
(this makes me throw up a little)
Re: South Korea provokes teenage smartphone privacy row
#5Is this enforced by the OEM ROM? Won't flashing a custom rom on your phone bypass it? How do they know the user is within the age group that is required to install it? If 3rd party apps are supported for this is there an app that either has a "hidden" disable setting or an app that pretends to have the functionality but in reality does nothing. Won't the infrastructure for a product like this be a large target for ha…
I guess you have to register the age of whoever uses the sim, and the phone networks won't accept data connections if you haven't got the app installed(which probably handles logging into their servers or whatever).
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#6The BBC should make look closer to home and grow some teeth and balls and challenge the horrendous and repugnant direction in which the UK government is trying to take on privacy, blanket spying on the general public, right to protest and freedom of speech.
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#7South Korea is a good example of how the proliferation of technology doesn't necessarily entail increased political freedom. They might have great internet connectivity, but it comes with all sorts of overt censorship - the government blocks numerous websites, and periodically crack down on 'false rumours' online. Previously they enforced the infamous 'real name' law aimed at preventing anonymity on arbitrarily large websites.
Re: South Korea provokes teenage smartphone privacy row
#8The BBC should make look closer to home and grow some teeth and balls and challenge the horrendous and repugnant direction in which the UK government is trying to take on privacy, blanket spying on the general public, right to protest and freedom of speech.
Their funding is thanks to the British government[0]. So they'll do no such thing.
[0] They enforce something like a TV tax.
Re: South Korea provokes teenage smartphone privacy row
#9The BBC should make look closer to home and grow some teeth and balls and challenge the horrendous and repugnant direction in which the UK government is trying to take on privacy, blanket spying on the general public, right to protest and freedom of speech.
The last time they tried to take on the securitat was over the "dodgy dossier" in the runup to the Iraq war. They lost, quite comprehensively, and are not in a position to ever do this again.
The conservative government is already not keen on the BBC, and the press are happy to attack it to support Sky as an alternative.
Re: South Korea provokes teenage smartphone privacy row
#10How do they know that the phone is used by a teenager? I expect that the SIM is on one of the parents but I don't know how that usually works in Korea.
It'll be administratively tied to the national ID card system somehow.