FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones by Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers' IDs

# Summary The FCC is proposing to require telecommunications companies to collect and store personal identification information, including government IDs and physical addresses, from all phone customers in an effort to combat scammers. The measure would effectively eliminate burner phones—untraceable devices previously available without identity verification—raising significant privacy concerns among civil rights groups, who warn it would harm domestic abuse survivors, journalists, and privacy-conscious individuals while resembling identification practices in authoritarian countries.