This is interesting, essentially what they do in India where you need to show a biometrics + passport or Aadhar card. Huge tradeoff in Privacy, but your cell number becomes your de facto verifier of identity (in the US its often your credit card).
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NEW: The FCC wants to make it effectively impossible for people to buy what many call burner phones—a phone not explicitly linked to your identity at the point of purchase—which would impact privacy-conscious people, to domestic abuse survivors, to journalists, and many more.
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 s...
