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
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
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