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New Trump FCC Plan To ‘Fight Robocalls’ Raises Red Flags And Major Privacy Concerns (www.techdirt.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Gnergy@piefed.europe.pub to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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We've talked a lot about how Americans have somehow accepted the fact that our voice networks are now saturated with scammers, fraudsters, and robocallers (no, that's not something that happens in well run, functionally regulated countries). I've also explained for years how the U.S. government solutions to the problems are usually ineffective because they're endlessly…

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[–] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago

In late April, the Trump FCC announced it was considering the development of new “Know Your Customer” rules requiring that the buyer of any new phone present a government ID, a physical address, a full legal name, and an existing phone number at the point of sale.

That doesn't even sound like it's intended to stress robocalls in any way. That is so clearly about not allowing people to have phones which are difficult to trace the ownership of.