{"id":3673,"date":"2026-06-15T11:03:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ibvl.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/the-fcc-wants-to-eliminate-burner-phones\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T11:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:03:59","slug":"the-fcc-wants-to-eliminate-burner-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ibvl.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/the-fcc-wants-to-eliminate-burner-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"The FCC Wants to Eliminate Burner Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A proposed FCC rule would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids\/\">kill<\/a> burner phones: phones whose accounts are not attached to a particular person.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The FCC plans to do this by legally forcing the country\u2019s telecoms to store a wealth of personal information about essentially all phone customers, including a government issued identification number and their physical address, alarming privacy advocates and civil rights activists who compare the measures to those from authoritarian countries where it can be difficult to buy a mobile phone plan without giving up your identity.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed change would drastically shake up how people obtain phone plans in the U.S., and have all sorts of privacy and cybersecurity knock-on effects. 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