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

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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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