FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service
https://reclaimthenet.org/the-fcc-wants-your-id-before-you-get-a-phone-number
https://reclaimthenet.org/the-fcc-wants-your-id-before-you-get-a-phone-number
11 Comments
swelter_spark@reddthat.com · 31 pts · 119d
More identity verification. 🙄 For everything people use to protect their privacy.
solrize@lemmy.ml · 23 pts · 119d
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 · 14 pts · 118d
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.
Mikelius@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 118d
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.
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 119d
Wouldn't this essentially eliminate burner phones?
FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 118d
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.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 118d
We should sue the federal government for taking our access to a basic human need - privacy. Like I cannot unfuck shit faster than they can enshittify the world.
FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 118d
That's such a good way to put it. Captures my feeling perfectly.
It's so demoralising. Like trying to hold back the tide.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 118d
Try a more spiteful carrier https://www.phreeli.com/faq
FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 118d
Oh, thanks! I never even heard of them.
I will invstigate. Sounds kinda promising from my skim of the site.
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 119d
That'll work 🙄
racoon@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 118d