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Pakistan Demands Cell Phone Users Get Fingerprinted

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Pakistan is telling cellphone users they must register their identities by entering fingerprints in a national database, a move the government sees as a way to combat terrorism but one that has privacy experts wary. Mobile phone users have a deadline this week to match their SIM cards with their fingerprints that will be collected and stored by the government. Officials in Islamabad have said those mobile users who don’t or can’t register their fingerprints and SIM cards by the...

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