The FCC wants your ID before you get a phone number
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The FCC wants your ID before you get a phone number
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Re: The FCC wants your ID before you get a phone number
#2Domestic abusers rejoice. Just hide the victim's ID and they won't get a phone.
Re: The FCC wants your ID before you get a phone number
#3Will this finally get Signal to stop demanding phone numbers to register accounts?
Lots of services you'd rather have an anonymous account with (Google, Meta, Discord) are partially/fully mandating phone numbers as a spam mitigation strategy. Also this paves the way to internet connections/mobile internet requiring ID
Re: The FCC wants your ID before you get a phone number
#4So, we all go back to land lines for privacy?
Re: The FCC wants your ID before you get a phone number
#5Does anyone imagine the government doesn’t already know who owns every phone number?
Also, couldn’t this system be optional, numbers that are ID-verified are somehow flagged so (assuming I choose) when one calls my phone knows to let it through and when an unverified number calls it doesn’t ring?
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#6I can understand the motivation. I've had the same number since the 90's and never once got a spam call until I was in the hospital last year and since then I've been getting 2-3 a day every day. They've probably left at least a thousand voice mails for a great loan opportunity, all from different numbers and different loan amounts.
Re: The FCC wants your ID before you get a phone number
#7As always, this will only affect those who either lack the knowledge or the resources to work around it. The innocent people always take the fall.
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#8Instead of forcing people and businesses to do all the work, how about the government does all the work and manages the data, and lets people opt-in to the system.
Re: The FCC wants your ID before you get a phone number
#9I can understand the motivation. I've had the same number since the 90's and never once got a spam call until I was in the hospital last year and since then I've been getting 2-3 a day every day. They've probably left at least a thousand voice mails for a great loan opportunity, all from different numbers and different loan amounts.
>until I was in the hospital last year
So much for HIPAA huh?
Re: The FCC wants your ID before you get a phone number
#10Privacy has to be one goal among many in a reasonable society.
I am very glad to see this change, because phone-based Fraud is a plague on the Elderly and other vulnerable members of society. And an incredible annoyance even to a security conscious professional.
The guard against intrusive and oppressive government is the Bill of Rights, not some easy ability to get a phone number anonymously.