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    "404 Media – 9 Jun 26",
    "FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs",
    "CNET",
    "If the FCC Bans Burner Phones, It Could Be a Privacy Nightmare"
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  "textContent": "404 Media – 9 Jun 26\n\n### FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs\n\nThe 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...\n\n> The FCC is proposing the data collection partly as a way to combat scammers, with telecoms being required to collect other information on business and foreign customers like the intended use case of their bulk phone plan purchase and their IP address. But the changes would mean telecoms collect data on all new and renewing customers, and the FCC provides a long list of other things that the collected data could help authorities with.\n\nCNET\n\n### If the FCC Bans Burner Phones, It Could Be a Privacy Nightmare\n\nProposed rules would require every mobile customer to provide a government ID. Experts warn the move could effectively end anonymous phone service in the US.\n\n> The rules are open for public comment until June 25, after which the FCC will have roughly a month to reply. The FCC isn’t expected to vote on the proposed rules until several months after that.\n\n* * *\n\nAt first, “for the kids,” social media lost anonymity and privacy. Then, “to prevent crime,” all kinds of surveillance got rolled out across cities. Now, “to stop fraud and help with investigations,” the internet is getting tied more and more closely to who you are.",
  "title": "FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs"
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