[governance] Russia demands Internet users show ID to access public Wifi

[Carlos Vera Quintana]

I spend last month traveling all around Europe and in London, France, Italy, Spain, etc you can access free public wifi only if you proof your identity by one or several ways: 1. They send you an SMS to your phone so they confirm your ID, 2. You register from Home, 3. You send a credit card number and pay 0.50 cents to prove this is your credit card and so..

So there are lot of ways to force and ID proof no only on east countries but mainly in west ones 

Carlos Vera Quintana
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> El 09/08/2014, a las 10:46, Chaitanya Dhareshwar <chaitanyabd at gmail.com> escribió:
> 
> I don't see why this would be a human rights violation (speaking from India pov) given the fact that:
> 
> 1. You need to submit ID proof when you take an internet connection at your residence/office
> 2. You need to product ID proof while using a cyber cafe
> 
> So since this regulatory aspect is already put in place one would naturally expect that if there's some form of public wifi the service provider would ask for ID proof...? 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Chaitanya Dhareshwar
> 
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> 
>> On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
>> Reuters:
>> 
>> Russia demands Internet users show ID to access public Wifi
>> 
>> http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/08/us-russia-internet-idUSKBN0G81RV20140808
>> 
>> In my view this is a clear human rights violation and something that I
>> would expect us all to be able to agree to condemn.
>> 
>> May I request the IGC coordinators to coordinate some action in regard
>> to this matter?
>> 
>> Greetings,
>> Norbert
>> 
>> 
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