Politics
Mexican Citizens Force Government to Delay Biometric Phone Registration Through Mass Non Compliance
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"Somewhere between 50% to 10% of the country only registered, and the other half chose not to participate. And so when it was becoming clear that the deadline was approaching and people were not going to be ready, that basically the telecommunications companies would be forced to cut off 50-plus million people's phone lines if they kept this deadline, the Mexican government, they basically blinked."
Journalist Derek Brose reported that up to 100 million Mexicans refused to comply with a new law requiring biometric registration of prepaid phone lines, forcing the government to delay the July 1st deadline. This marks the third time in a decade Mexican citizens have successfully resisted government surveillance efforts through silent non-compliance, demonstrating that mass refusal can stop technocratic overreach even after laws are passed.
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