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BeauHD @ Slashdot 1 place · 06/09/2026 23:30 EDT

FCC Wants To Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms To Get All Customers' IDs

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to make it effectively impossible for people to buy what many call burner phones -- a phone not explicitly linked to your identity at the point of purchase -- which would impact privacy-conscious people, to domestic abuse survivors, to journalists, and many more. The FCC plans to do this by legally forcing the country's telecoms to store a wealth of personal information about essentially all phone customers

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