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.”
This has been normal in germany for a decade now
And in Italy for as long as i can remember(i’m 20 y/o though)
My first thought was; are burner phones still a thing somewhere?
I’m pretty sure I saw a vending machine in NYC where you could buy prepaid SIMs for cash. That seems about as “burner phone” as it gets.
UK still has anonymous SIM cards, which I find somewhat surprising considering the amount of surveillance there.
At this point it can jump into identity theft zone anytime soon, even if said identity is none.
Even longer in France. Strangely enough some people have 500 prepaid SIMs to their name and are in 500 places at once!