{"id":469236,"date":"2026-06-09T23:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/469236\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T23:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:48:09","slug":"the-fcc-wants-to-make-burner-phones-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/469236\/","title":{"rendered":"The FCC wants to make burner phones illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The burner phone could soon be a thing of the past in the US. The FCC has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">proposed forcing every telecom<\/a> to collect and store a &#8220;government issued identification number&#8221; and physical address from &#8220;any new and renewing customer before granting access to its services,&#8221; 404 Media reports. The stated goal is to fight scammers and robocalls. The effect, critics say, is a national phone registry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ACLU&#8217;s Jay Stanley told 404 Media that civil libertarians spent decades looking at authoritarian countries that require phone registration and &#8220;never thought that would happen here.&#8221; The EFF&#8217;s Cooper Quintin said scammers &#8220;will have no trouble creating fake documentation,&#8221; while &#8220;they want to take away our ability to make an anonymous phone call.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proposal hits domestic violence survivors, journalists, and low-income people hardest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Previously:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The burner phone could soon be a thing of the past in the US. The FCC has proposed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[237346,28397,342,111,43,139,69,6903,18088,145,5885],"class_list":["post-469236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-civil-liberties","tag-fcc","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-privacy","tag-surveillance","tag-technology","tag-telecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}