Does anyone imagine the government doesn’t already know who owns every phone number?

Also, couldn’t this system be optional, numbers that are ID-verified are somehow flagged so (assuming I choose) when one calls my phone knows to let it through and when an unverified number calls it doesn’t ring?

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2ndorderthought 8 hours ago | parent [-]

They know through indirect means. So they buy all the cellphone data specifically the gps location data in the us and funnel it through huge servers. So they can determine patterns, addresses, etc.

This makes that easier and doesn't risk any of the legality if their should be illegal data sources or other likely illegal activities.

Tldr: This is a way to defeat vpns.

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mattmaroon 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah I strongly suspect this will allow them to use it in court considerably more frequently.

But still, I know they know who I am. Anyone with a cell phone in their pocket has no privacy. It’s the best tracking device ever.

Anyone who thinks anything at all can make that problem worse simply doesn’t understand that they have none.

I’d rather have zero privacy and zero spam calls than zero privacy and lots of spam calls. Obviously I’d prefer privacy and I think we need a constitutional amendment to that effect, but as far as showing our ID to eliminate spam in a world where zero privacy exists, sign me up.

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iamnothere 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I’d rather have zero privacy and zero spam calls than zero privacy and lots of spam calls. Obviously I’d prefer privacy and I think we need a constitutional amendment to that effect, but as far as showing our ID to eliminate spam in a world where zero privacy exists, sign me up.

Thanks for demonstrating that the end goal of privacy doomerism is passive acceptance.

Whether this is your real opinion or you’re astroturfing, you are complicit, and we are judging you.

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Cider9986 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

We have a constitutional amendment–the 4th amendment. They ignore it.

You can have privacy on a phone using GrapheneOS.

	▲	kyleee 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		To some extent; if they were motivated they could still correlate things and figure out exactly who you are and your movement history, etc