A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime
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A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime
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Re: A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime
#2Will this KYC reduce spam and scam calls?
Re: A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime
#3Im USA based use prepaid service because I dont want to provide information for a credit check to obtain postpay service.
Theres absolutely no reason for a US based telephony provider to retain the most sensitive PII on their customers.
Every large provider has a history of breaches and selling customer data.
The telephone companies are already tracking, storing, selling; so many data points on their customers.
They cant be trusted with any information.
Re: A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime
#4Honestly, stop the KYC regime everywhere else.
We're making our law enforcement's job marginally easier, by making the criminals' job infinitely easier by creating millions of juicy PII honeypots.
No, you don't need my phone #, real name, captcha.. if you think you do, realign your incentives, and rethink what else can be used for your real need instead.
Re: A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime
#5Will this KYC reduce spam and scam calls?
No.
Re: A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime
#6We really just need telcos to stop allowing caller id spoofing. Doesn’t even need your name, but with a real number we could actually report these scams.
You can still allow people to hide it, but then by default every non-business phone should block calls with hidden numbers.
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#7We really just need telcos to stop allowing caller id spoofing. Doesn’t even need your name, but with a real number we could actually report these scams. You can still allow people to hide it, but then by default every non-business phone should block calls with hidden numbers.
What ever happened to SHAKEN/STIR? I thought this was supposed to happen 5 years ago. Did they just chicken out on the prospect of actually shutting down telcos sending spam volume? I still get loads of spam phone calls, so clearly something went wrong (or slow enough to be indistinguishable from wrong).
Re: A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime
#8Im USA based use prepaid service because I dont want to provide information for a credit check to obtain postpay service. Theres absolutely no reason for a US based telephony provider to retain the most sensitive PII on their customers. Every large provider has a history of breaches and selling customer data. The telephone companies are already tracking, storing, selling; so many data points on their customers. They…
Counterpoint: for my part I would like it to be the case that any phone line that can dial or message my phone can be traced back to a known human being who can be held accountable for abuse of that phone line in terms of generating spam, abuse or harassment.
Seems that we can’t both get what we want.
A potential solution is that you get your anonymous phone line but my phone provider simply refuses to let you call me with it.
Of course then we need to extend the same principle to data and to IP traffic originating from your device. If you don’t want to be traceable it seems reasonable that services should have the right to refuse to handle IP traffic you generate.
Would such a half-baked level of network access suit your needs?
Re: A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime
#9We really just need telcos to stop allowing caller id spoofing. Doesn’t even need your name, but with a real number we could actually report these scams. You can still allow people to hide it, but then by default every non-business phone should block calls with hidden numbers.
What ever happened to SHAKEN/STIR? I thought this was supposed to happen 5 years ago. Did they just chicken out on the prospect of actually shutting down telcos sending spam volume? I still get loads of spam phone calls, so clearly something went wrong (or slow enough to be indistinguishable from wrong).
According to a defcon talk, spammers just make sure all their spam gets routed through legacy TDM systems which discard the shaken/stir header because they're too old to support it. The other side then re-adds a "we got this from somewhere that didn't support this header" header.
Re: A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime
#10Im USA based use prepaid service because I dont want to provide information for a credit check to obtain postpay service. Theres absolutely no reason for a US based telephony provider to retain the most sensitive PII on their customers. Every large provider has a history of breaches and selling customer data. The telephone companies are already tracking, storing, selling; so many data points on their customers. They…
Counterpoint: for my part I would like it to be the case that any phone line that can dial or message my phone can be traced back to a known human being who can be held accountable for abuse of that phone line in terms of generating spam, abuse or harassment. Seems that we can’t both get what we want. A potential solution is that you get your anonymous phone line but my phone provider simply refuses to let you call m…
It should show up as anonymous. And you should have a setting: allow anonymous calls y/n