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sanitation@lemmy.today to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 days ago

The FCC wants to attach your ID to your phone number

docs.fcc.gov

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The FCC wants to attach your ID to your phone number

docs.fcc.gov

sanitation@lemmy.today to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 days ago
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  • corvi@lemmy.zip
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    And yet it still somehow won’t prevent all of the spoofed robocalls I get.

  • Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world
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    How are they going to do that if my provider doesn’t know my name?

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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      By forcing your provider to get one (with a government issued ID), or stop operations in the country.

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    Which phone number? I have two that personally own, but since I pay for all the phones in the house they all my numbers. Basically giving me 5 phone numbers.

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      my cell phone is an extra line on someone else’s plan to save money. landline at the office is in the owner’s (and business) name. i got rid of ‘my’ phone back around 2009 or 10.

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        What my wife and my sons phones are. Just extra lines on my policy.

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    That’s methed up. Screw the GOP Us government. Bunch of nazi’s.

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    This is a good time to consider Calyx Institute private SIM cards

    https://calyx.org/help/memberships/sprout-membership/setting-up-your-sprout-sim-card

    • Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world
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      Or Phreeli or Cape

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        deleted by creator

        • Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world
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          It just comes down to what you prioritize.

  • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world
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    Then I won’t have a phone number

  • Scott 🇨🇦🏴‍☠️@sh.itjust.works
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    Check out JMPChat.

  • calidris [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    They essentially already do. I guess this would just cut out all the middlemen.

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      The middlemen that require warrants.

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