Just as the weekly BART protests have become a faded memory, the transit agency released its new proposed policy that would allow BART to temporarily cut cellphone service -- but only in extraordinary, 9/11-type scenarios.
So if you are planning to use your cellphone as an explosive, or use it to facilitate violent activity, or to collude with others substantially disrupt service, then, yes, BART could -- and probably would -- jam cellphone service at the stations, said Bob Franklin, president of the BART Board of Directors.
The policy recommendation, which will go before the board for consideration next week, comes just two months after BART was highly criticized for shutting off wireless service on Aug. 11 to prevent protesters from coordinating a demonstration at the stations. The cellphone interruption only provoked protesters and members of Anonymous, which purportedly hacked into BART's website and released personal information of both passengers and police.
Yet Franklin tells us that this new policy, if passed, means BART wouldn't interrupt cellphone service to keep protesters from organizing.
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