Per a new directive from Kosovo's telecom regulator, mobile phone owners must register their SIM cards by February 28 or face disconnection, Deutsche Welle reports. And this could lead to trouble, according to some who say the country's data protection regulator should be put into place before such data collection and potential sharing occurs. Kosovo's data protection law was adopted in 2010, but political opposition has prevented the establishment of the agency that will enforce it. Although the Kosovo Police Service has asserted that officers will need a warrant in order to obtain registered SIM data, a European Commission official says that Kosovars should be wary.
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