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China wants people who buy new cell phone numbers to register their personal details, joining many European and Asian countries in curbing the anonymous use of mobile technology. ... The ID requirement is also raising new privacy concerns and will likely upset some customers unwilling to give personal information to vendors and telecom operators for fear it will be resold, said Duncan Clark, managing director of BDA China Ltd, a technology market research firm. ...

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Pat, formulaic expressions of why an anonymous source wants to be anonymous are probably worse than no explanation at all. They are uninformative and give readers the impression that our anonymity rules are on autopilot. ... As all our guidelines emphasize, we should resort to anonymous sources only for newsworthy information that we can't report any other way. Anonymity should not be invoked for trivial, obvious or tangential information, or for quotes that add little of ...