The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number
reclaimthenet.org
The FCC just proposed fixing your robocall problem by building the kind of phone-user registry that privacy advocates have spent decades trying to prevent.
  • racoon@lemmy.ml
    5·
    9 hours ago

    In my country, we have been made to show ID to get a SIM card for decades but the robocall problem has just been solved a few months ago. I still can’t believe it but my phone is as busy now as when I was a successful teenager: silent

  • Mikelius@lemmy.ml
    21·
    23 hours ago

    Once again punishing the users abiding by the law, while rewarding the criminals. What’s new.

    Now wondering what will happen with my 2 Mint Mobile numbers I’ve had for 3-4 years, without making a single phone call. I only use them for internet access.

  • solrize@lemmy.ml
    23·
    1 day ago

    How are they going to handle online purchase of phone plans (I’ve bought several that way)? Business VOIP? Robocalls routed through other countries? Answer: it’s not about robocalls.

    • NotFrenchJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      13·
      21 hours ago

      it’s not about robocalls.

      Nothing was ever really about “le evil pedophiles” or “protecting children” either. Yet, using that excuse seems to work wonders with the gullible masses, including many people here, I would imagine.

    • FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      15 hours ago

      IDK (prob?), but more and more of the privacy structures I set up for myself are being torn down like that.

      I once set up a private VOIP. I hardly ever used it. I paid on time, every month for like 4 years. Prob made like 1 call a month avg to a local biz or w/e. Suddenly one day, company demands my ID. I wouldn’t give it. Service terminated. I never used it for anything bad. Not once. That never even crossed my mind. I just did not want my call history scraped and sold to data brokers.

      I hate this. My ability to escape the mass surveilence is crumbling.