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.
  • solrize@lemmy.ml
    17·
    2 months 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.

    • FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      2 months 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.