Proposed rules would require every mobile customer to provide a government ID. Experts warn the move could effectively end anonymous phone service in the US.
  • bobs_monkey@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    If they were so serious about curbing spam calls, they could just as well mandate that telephony providers figure it out. This is just another attempt to ensure they can track and surveil dissent.

    No spam call center is using a burner phone. They’re using SIP trunks/VoIP lines through spoofed phone numbers.

    • greenskye@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Yep. Seems like the key is: find vaguely related thing that people dislike, then gaslight them that more surveillance will fix it (it doesn’t fix it).

  • hirihit640@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    01·
    5 days ago

    CMV burner phones were always questionable in their privacy. How do you know the anonymous seller of your burner phone, isn’t the government in disguise?

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
      OPEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      ??? Isn’t a burner phone just an ordinary phone you can buy at all of the same places? Who of us is confused about terminology?