Under the proposed KYC rules in CG Docket 02-278, voice providers would have to collect and verify your identity before you can place a call. Name, home address, government ID, backup number, kept for four years after you leave. Penalties charged per call push every carrier toward holding more of your data, not less.
They call it a robocall fix. It is not. Real scammers and overseas fraud rings never hand over true ID. They buy stolen identities by the thousand. The mandate does not stop the criminal. It stops the law-abiding citizen, the abuse survivor, the journalist’s source, and the servicemember who needs a line not tied to their name.
What it builds is a national identity-to-number registry, spread across thousands of carriers, every one a target. And this is not hypothetical. Chinese state hackers known as Salt Typhoon are still inside the networks of at least nine American carriers, including the largest. They got in through the wiretap systems the government forced carriers to build. The FBI calls the threat ongoing, and the carriers cannot prove they are out. This is the moment the FCC picks to order a brand new database of your identity stacked on top of those same networks.
Privacy is not paranoia. Privacy is intelligence. Information is power, and whoever controls what is known about you holds leverage over you. You decide who gets what. You never hand the enemy the upper hand.
We built Mackie Mobile on that. We do not collect what we do not need, because data never collected cannot be breached, sold, or weaponized. And we do not care if you ever sign up with us. If you read this, get smarter, and protect your family without becoming a customer, that is still a win. We are fighting for the people, not for signups.
Here is how you fight with us. The record is open. Reply comments are due July 27, and the FCC must consider every one that gives a real reason. A thin record gets waved through. A deep one is hard to ignore.
2File in Docket 02-278
3Choose Reply to Comments
4Reference our filing, ID 26109931202, and say why this matters to you
Read our full comment on the FCC’s official page. Click the PDF to download all six pages. https://fcc.gov/ecfs/filing/st
atus/detail/confirmation/202606261350604853
Yes, I understand. But because the bill pretends to protect consumers from spams and scams, it seems reasonable that if the bill is bad, there should be a way to achieve the same objective without it.
I definitely want phone spam to be shot down and people who do it held accountable. At some level there needs to be a way to dox and arrest them.
I don't accept the politicians' "muh keep the kiddos safe" talk at face value, but the need for accountability is real. Pointing out the bill is messed up is valuable by itself, but the question is for any anons who know this stuff: how do we make scammers accountable at the end of the day while giving privacy for the rest of us?
I am tired of the friking bots so I am telling these people to stop them. I am having less and less calls per day. I used to have 20-25 per day. Imagine how pissed off I am
Under the proposed KYC rules in CG Docket 02-278, voice providers would have to collect and verify your identity before you can place a call. Name, home address, government ID, backup number, kept for four years after you leave. Penalties charged per call push every carrier toward holding more of your data, not less.
They call it a robocall fix. It is not. Real scammers and overseas fraud rings never hand over true ID. They buy stolen identities by the thousand. The mandate does not stop the criminal. It stops the law-abiding citizen, the abuse survivor, the journalist’s source, and the servicemember who needs a line not tied to their name.
What it builds is a national identity-to-number registry, spread across thousands of carriers, every one a target. And this is not hypothetical. Chinese state hackers known as Salt Typhoon are still inside the networks of at least nine American carriers, including the largest. They got in through the wiretap systems the government forced carriers to build. The FBI calls the threat ongoing, and the carriers cannot prove they are out. This is the moment the FCC picks to order a brand new database of your identity stacked on top of those same networks.
Privacy is not paranoia. Privacy is intelligence. Information is power, and whoever controls what is known about you holds leverage over you. You decide who gets what. You never hand the enemy the upper hand.
We built Mackie Mobile on that. We do not collect what we do not need, because data never collected cannot be breached, sold, or weaponized. And we do not care if you ever sign up with us. If you read this, get smarter, and protect your family without becoming a customer, that is still a win. We are fighting for the people, not for signups.
Here is how you fight with us. The record is open. Reply comments are due July 27, and the FCC must consider every one that gives a real reason. A thin record gets waved through. A deep one is hard to ignore.
Add your voice in five minutes. 1Go to http://fcc.gov/ecfs
2File in Docket 02-278 3Choose Reply to Comments 4Reference our filing, ID 26109931202, and say why this matters to you
Read our full comment on the FCC’s official page. Click the PDF to download all six pages. https://fcc.gov/ecfs/filing/st atus/detail/confirmation/202606261350604853
https://nitter.poast.org/Johan_Mackie/status/2070614453205279086#m
Question: how can spam calls be stopped?
I get that this isn't the silver bullet, but how to stop smurfs, scams and ads from harassing us constantly?
I honestly don't think this has to do with wanting to stop scammers. I believe FCC wants to collect our personal info to store in a national database.
Yes, I understand. But because the bill pretends to protect consumers from spams and scams, it seems reasonable that if the bill is bad, there should be a way to achieve the same objective without it.
I definitely want phone spam to be shot down and people who do it held accountable. At some level there needs to be a way to dox and arrest them.
I don't accept the politicians' "muh keep the kiddos safe" talk at face value, but the need for accountability is real. Pointing out the bill is messed up is valuable by itself, but the question is for any anons who know this stuff: how do we make scammers accountable at the end of the day while giving privacy for the rest of us?
I am tired of the friking bots so I am telling these people to stop them. I am having less and less calls per day. I used to have 20-25 per day. Imagine how pissed off I am
Thankfully, there are cool open source projects like reticulum.network that exist
There's also grapheneOS as well, I switch GOS last yr from using iphone for yrs and never look back.
KYC stands for Kontrol Your Citizen.
it could also stand for Kill Your Citizen as well