The number of phone scams in Hong Kong has tripled since a real-name SIM card registration system was implemented in 2022, despite the government’s claim that it would help crack down on frau…
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Welcome to (most of) Europe, we have this bullshit for a long time.
There have been a few studies that say scams, discrimination, racism and bullying will increase when people are forced to use their real name. In this case it’s probably because off a different reason, but still.
That’s interesting. Can you link some of the studies?
https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/hicss/2012/06149194/12OmNyKJiDq doesn’t support my claim since on the aggregate level it’s reduced and on individual level it remains the same. But to not be too biased (by my own claim), thought it was worthwhile to post it. They do say here that it only reduced malicious comments by 0.9% (so it didn’t increase).
Here it says it doesn’t help. This article says discrimination increases, but I can’t find the original source. They say real names are better then full anonimity, but worse then pseudonimity.
But searching for the right study, I can’t seem to find it. Only news articles claiming it, but that’s not much of a study. So maybe I shouldn’t have said it increases, but it doesn’t decrease (depending on which study and which aggregate level you look at). A lot of articles point at facebook where people need to use their real name but still post a lot of unfriendly stuff.
Thanks. It did seem weird. I would assume right-wing and “patriots” would react to foreign names. So it would increase things like scams, doxxing, bullying but for the victims.
Shark Attacks are closely related to ice cream sales:
https://www.statology.org/correlation-does-not-imply-causation-examples/
I would love to live in a world where banning shark would make everyone stop buying ice cream
Just wanted to go through the data and see if they didn’t do a statistical stunt
How?
Is no id card required for registration?
Fake passport, fake id card, employees at a selling point activating a bunch with junk data and selling those themselves.
Reading the article, I don’t think they’re trying to imply what is suggested by the headline, ie. that the real-name registration system is being abused somehow to scam people.
Rather it’s an article pointing out that the real-name registration system did not help to combat the already rising number of scams, which was the reason that the government gave for passing the law.
It doesn’t seem to be phone-specific either:
It’s a useful data point to argue against any similar initiatives in other countries, where they may use the same reasoning to justify the law. It doesn’t seem to make a difference, as criminals will always find a way regardless of the hoops that you make law-abiding citizens jump through.
Yeah these are the real problem, and I suspect the network operators know they’re there and could stop them.
https://www.wired.com/story/sim-farm-new-york-threatened-us-infrastructure-feds-say/
More likely Jane registers a SIM using her ID. She then sells it to Sally, who uses it to scam people online.
That would be my reading of that sentence. I’m just not clear if they propose to criminalise both Jane‘s and Sally‘s acts.
In my country you have to registers SIMs with your real id/name, however criminals just use stolen SIMs hehe
The other day a neighbor of mine got a new phone and asked me to do the start configuration, create Google Acc, download Facebook, TikTok, Whatsapp and crap like that, she had all of that in her previous phone, but she traded it and didn’t remove the SIM card and thought it was a less of hassle creating a new acc for everything and registering a new SIM in her name than simply keeping her SIM and writing down her email addresses and passwords… and I believe a large portion of our population operates like that, absolutely barbaric.