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sanitation@lemmy.today to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 hours 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 · 4 hours ago
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  • 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.

  • corvi@lemmy.zip
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    And yet it still somehow won’t prevent all of the spoofed robocalls I get.

  • LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    That’s methed up. Screw the GOP Us government. Bunch of nazi’s.

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

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    How are they going to do that if my provider doesn’t know my name?

  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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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.

    • adarza@lemmy.ca
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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.

      • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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        What my wife and my sons phones are. Just extra lines on my policy.

  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
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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

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

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