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)
Even longer in France. Strangely enough some people have 500 prepaid SIMs to their name and are in 500 places at once!
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.