The FCC wants to require ID verification for every phone activation in America, including prepaid phones. Those are the phones journalists, abuse survivors, and whistleblowers depend on to stay anonymous. The excuse is robocalls. The result is a national identity check on one of the last semi-anonymous communication tools we have.

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The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number

The FCC just proposed fixing your robocall problem by building the kind of phone-user registry that privacy advocates have spent decades trying to ...