Old bill phone bill sixty mill
Danny | 22.02.2009 19:50
Fun with spreadsheets
5,144,200 population in Scotland so extrapolated to the UK's 60,943,912 this would be a cost of over £60 million paid by the police to private phone companies to spy on us on 191070 occassions per annum.
[ This information isn't available elsewhere online, it was cribbed from a FOI request from the Scottish version of an English newspaper. I would credit the newspaper but they probably prefer anonymity since their reporter and editors total 'misunderestimation' of Scottish requests is 15,500. Regardless, I doubt it is possible to copyright Freedom of Information requests ].
Danny
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Old bill phone bill six mill
22.02.2009 20:19
Danny
stupid but truth
23.02.2009 18:14
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in answer to stupid but truth
23.02.2009 19:53
old bill
Change IMEI and remove battery when not in use...
23.02.2009 19:55
If you get the mobile and change the IMEI and get a SIM from somewhere anon (car boot sale for ex.) you should be pretty safe - although they can use the locations the phone is at a lot to aid in identifying you. Use the phone only in areas not associated with you and you should be OK.
Also make sure to remove the battery when the phone isn't in use, as they can still track you with it switched off but a battery inserted.
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