Updated my WiFi extender then checked what the update did and first result is a forum post where people talk about how the update destroyed their extenders I'm laughin
Me: "Yeah, I was so tired of Microsoft's bullshit, and they just kept making windows worse and less stable. So, instead of downgrading to Windows 11, spyware edition (now with ads!), I just switched to Linux."
Them: "Oh, cool! And Linux really works just as well?"
Me, a single droplet of blood rolling out my left nostril: "...I really hate Microsoft"
i really like this thing where websites will have separate "log in" & "sign up" buttons and if you click "log in" it takes you to a sign-up screen anyway so you have to click "i already have an account" and then it will ask if you want to sign in with your facebook account or with instagram or linkedin or deviantart or whatever, and if you choose "username & password" it asks if you want to put in your username or use your thumbprint, and once you put your username & password it emails you a confirmation code, and once you put in the code it says "do you want to give us your phone number for future sign-ins? do you want to sign up for facial recognition? do you want to give us your bones? give us your fucking bones?
wait I have one more story. there's a group of anti-abortion protesters who often set up by the Ethiopian cafe I hang out in, and when I was waiting to cross one of them held up an aborted fetus sign and said "how does this make you feel?" and I said "hungry", and then I was so satisfied by my own cleverness that I missed the lights and stepped off the sidewalk into oncoming traffic
The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customersâ government issued identity number and physical address, impac
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to make it effectively impossible for people to buy what many call burner phonesâa phone not explicitly linked to your identity at the point of purchaseâwhich would impact privacy-conscious people, to domestic abuse survivors, to journalists, and many more. The FCC plans to do this by legally forcing the countryâs 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.
âFor 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,â Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Unionâs (ACLU) Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project told 404 Media in an email. âBut make no mistake: with this rulemaking, the government is contemplating taking away peopleâs ability to get a burner phone, which will hurt low-income people, domestic violence victims, and anyone else who cares about their privacy.â
In a synopsis of the proposed changes, the FCC writes, âSpecifically, 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.â 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 âenforcers will be better able to identify the scammers when they do.â 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 âlaw enforcement to more easily identify callers that use the network to perpetuate crimes by ensuring that voice providers have accurate and complete customer information.â It goes on to ask if the data would help identify people buying and selling illicit goods; the investigation of âfraud, espionage, or influence operations that undermine national securityâ, and âaddress abuse in text messaging networks.â
âCriminals continue to leverage the anonymity provided by phone calls and texts to defraud Americans and exploit communications networks to further other crimes,â one section reads.
At the moment, the FCC is seeking comments about its proposed changes, with interested or concerned partiesâthink telecom companies, law enforcement, or privacy advocatesâable to weigh in. But the intention of the FCC is clear: the agency wants telecoms to be legally obligated to collect much more personally identifying information on new and returning customers, linking them directly to their phone number and phone usage data. The FCC also asks whether the amount of data collected should change depending on whether a customer is seeking a prepaid or a postpaid service plan.
Multiple privacy and technology experts strongly pushed back against the proposed changes. âThis proposal by the FCC will do little to combat scams and robocalls, since most people doing that will have no trouble creating fake documentation or identities,â Cooper Quintin, security researcher and senior public interest technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), told 404 Media. âGiven this administrationâs crackdown on free expression, protest, immigrants, and womenâs health we have trouble seeing this as a bold attack on freedom of communication. They want to take away our ability to make an anonymous phone call.â
Eric Null, the director of the Privacy & Data Project at the Center for Democracy & Technology, told 404 Media in an emailed statement âTo address the scourge of illegal robocalls, the FCC has unfortunately proposed to force every wireless subscriber in the nation to sacrifice their privacy and give up significant personal details before receiving or renewing a wireless line. While some carriers already collect such details, there are specific circumstances where a person may need privacy and anonymity when seeking a cell phone, including if that person is a victim of domestic violence, or is a journalist or whistleblower. This proposal represents a loss of privacy across the board, and from an agency whose remit includes protecting privacy. The FCC might let a few bad apples spoil the whole bunch.â
Cape is a privacy-focused telecom company that limits the amount of data it collects on its customers. John Doyle, the companyâs CEO, told 404 Media in an emailed statement âWe hate robocalls and support eliminating them, but entrusting telecom carriers to effectively create a nationwide ID registry for every American with a phone is not the solution. Mobile carriers have been breached time and again because the incentives to secure trillions of dollars of legacy architecture arenât there. Further enriching compromised telecom datasets with government ID, physical addresses, and alternate phone numbers harms our security rather than improving it.âÂ
Given this proposal is in the comments stage, the FCC has many questions it is hoping to receive information on, such as whether ârenewingâ customers should be only those new to the provider, or those switching plans with their current telecom; or whether they should not allow the use of P.O. boxes or shared office locations as the required âphysical address.â
The FCC did not respond to 404 Mediaâs request for comment. The proposal is open to comments until June 25.
Here is a link to the FCC's Official Public Notice.
This is a link to where you can make a public comment.
In the proceedings section, enter 17-59 and 02-278, it should look like this
You might need to type it in slowly for the correct docket to show up, I certainly did.
i do not want to live in the fucking panopticon fuck the camera that blinks above me at work, the tv watching me at the store, the "smile you're on camera" signs, the ring cameras, the flock cameras, the apps to track your child or partner, the activist friends telling me "just assume everything you do in public is being recorded somewhere", the government building protester databases, the teslas recording every move all around them, the knowledge that everything i type or search or save is being tracked and logged, the ads and search suggestions that mysteriously know what i was just talking about, the way biometrics keep creeping into more places, the way my car spies on me, the way my phone spies on me, the way there is nowhere to go to get away from it!!! no wonder the internet is full of vindictive little stalkers and witchhunts when it's the water and the air of society from the culture to the infrastructure
translation: i fucking hate trans women specifically but i cant say that so ima say essentially "males" except slyly make it obvious i dont mean cis men at all. teehee!!!
this the typa wording yall gotta be looking out for - TERFs will try to bend shit but the core message remains the same
I saw this when running newpipe. But wait, it gets deeper. I clicked on the details buttons and it said as of today, we have 83 days left until Google rolls out this new requirement for apps inside and outside of the google play store. If any developer disagrees with their new terms and fees, they will be blocked!
I'll share some of the info below:
Looks like they're trying to nuke the remaining privacy and freedoms we have left on the internet.
What to do?
-Get your developer friends to not comply to their new guides
- Sign the open letter on the site and take action by checking out the full resources list on their website as well!
To summarize, this is all daunting especially when you feel all alone with unfair and inhumane regulations comming out faster than improvements but we got this working together!
Share the link with your friends, family and anyone who will listen!
Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.
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