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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 pe...

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