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FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs


The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers’ government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse survivors. “We never thought that would happen here.”

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