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FCCが burner 電話機を禁止するため、アメリカの通信事業者にすべての電話ユーザーの個人情報を取得・保存するよう求める計画について説明します。
この提案により、 burner 電話機の購入は実質的に困難になる可能性があります。これはジャーナリストや家内暴力 survivors など、プライバシーを重視する人々にも影響を与えます。FCCは通信事業者に新たな顧客がサービスを利用できるようにする前に、名前、住所、政府発行の身分証明番号、および代替連絡先を取得・保存するよう要請します。
このデータ収集は詐欺対策の一環として行われ、ビジネスや外国顧客からは大量購入の目的なども要求されます。FCCは、これらの情報を法執行機関が犯罪者が通信ネットワークを使って違法行為を行った際の調査に使用できると主張しています。
しかし、アメリカクリアランスユニオン（ACLU）のジャイ・スタンレー氏は、「私たちはこのような対策が国を追放する国家のようなものであることを認識している」と述べています。この規則案により、 burner 電話機を取得できなくなる可能性があるため、低所得者や家内暴力 survivors、プライバシーを気にする人々に影響が出るでしょう。
結局、FCCの提案はアメリカの電話サービス取得方法を根本的に変える可能性があり、プライバシーとサイバーセキュリティにも影響が及ぶ見込みです。
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to make it effectively impossible for people to buy what many call burner phones -- a phone not explicitly linked to your identity at the point of purchase -- which would impact privacy-conscious people, to domestic abuse survivors, to journalists, and many more. The FCC plans to do this by legally forcing the country's telecoms to store a wealth of personal information about essentially all phone customers, including a government issued identification number and their physical address, alarming privacy advocates and civil rights activists who compare the measures to those from authoritarian countries where it can be difficult to buy a mobile phone plan without giving up your identity.
The proposed change would drastically shake up how people obtain phone plans in the U.S., and have all sorts of privacy and cybersecurity knock-on effects. The FCC is proposing the data collection partly as a way to combat scammers, with telecoms being required to collect other information on business and foreign customers like the intended use case of their bulk phone plan purchase and their IP address. But the changes would mean telecoms collect data on all new and renewing customers, and the FCC provides a long list of other things that the collected data could help authorities with.
In a synopsis of the proposed changes, the FCC writes, "Specifically, we seek comment on requiring originating providers to, at a minimum, obtain and retain the name, physical address, government issued identification number, and an alternate telephone number of any new and renewing customer before granting access to its services." The goal of collecting this data, the FCC writes, is to deter some scammers from getting onto a telecom network in the first place, and so "enforcers will be better able to identify the scammers when they do." The FCC compares the changes to the sort of data collected by banks to prevent money laundering.
One section stresses that the newly collected data would help "law enforcement to more easily identify callers that use the network to perpetuate crimes by ensuring that voice providers have accurate and complete customer information." It goes on to ask if the data would help identify people buying and selling illicit goods; the investigation of "fraud, espionage, or influence operations that undermine national security", and "address abuse in text messaging networks." "Criminals continue to leverage the anonymity provided by phone calls and texts to defraud Americans and exploit communications networks to further other crimes," one section reads. "For decades, civil libertarians have looked overseas at authoritarian countries where the government requires people to register to get a mobile phone to ensure they can be tracked. We never thought that would happen here," Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU) Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project told 404 Media in an email. "But make no mistake: with this rulemaking, the government is contemplating taking away people's ability to get a burner phone, which will hurt low-income people, domestic violence victims, and anyone else who cares about their privacy."
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