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RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seBM to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 7 days ago

FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones by Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers' IDs

www.404media.co

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FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones by Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers' IDs

www.404media.co

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FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs
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The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers’ government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse survivors. “We never thought that would happen here.”

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  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Probably not actually impossible, just requiring identity theft so only available to criminals

    • piccolo@sh.itjust.works
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      Time to buy stock in non traditional voip services.

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        DM when you establish a public no logs PBX.

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    so fucking sick of this fascist gov

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    A real criminal would have a router with a programmable imei

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