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記事は、米国連邦通信委員会（FCC）が burner フォンの購入を制限する計画について報告しています。具体的には、電話会社に対し、新規および再契約のお客様に対して名前、住所、身分証明番号、そして代替連絡先等の個人情報を取得・保存させることを求めています。
この提案は、サイバー攻撃者を抑制することを目的としており、FCC はこれにより当局は犯罪者がネットワークを利用した際により容易に特定できると主張しています。しかし、プライバシーや人権活動家の視点からは、米国でも burner フォンの利用が制限されることになると懸念されています。
この措置は、ジャーナリストやDV被害者など、プライバシーを重視する人々にとって打撃となる可能性があります。ACLU の Jay Stanley は、「これが実現すれば burner フォンの利用が困難になることを意味し、低所得層やDV被害者の生活に影響が出るだろう」と述べています。
FCC はさらに、企業や国外顧客に対して大量の電話契約を結ぶ際の用途と IP アドレスも含む追加情報を要求することを求めています。
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."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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