The Government Wants to End Anonymity on Phones

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We start this week with Joseph’s story about the FCC’s wild proposal to require peoples’ government ID numbers to even get a phone plan. The FCC is doing it to curb robocalls, but also said it would be useful for a bunch of other stuff. After the break, Jason tells us all about cops abusing Flock to stalk girlfriends and other people. In the subscribers’ only section, Emanuel explains how a software update is impacting Amazon drivers.

• FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs (404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by…)

• Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People (404media.co/cops-keep-getting-arrested-for-usi…)

• Software Update Automatically Turns off Amazon Delivery Drivers’ AC During Dangerous Summer Heat (404media.co/software-update-automatically-turn…)

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