The FCC Wants to Eliminate Burner Phones
2026-06-16T07:24:12Z•1e89a2735b2f6cd6125745fc1786c1dd1a8bdbe93a4fd05f445954add998ab17
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What happened
Collection of Bruce Schneier blog posts (June 2026) covering multiple security and privacy issues: an FCC proposal to require government IDs and extensive personal data for phone accounts that would effectively eliminate anonymous/burner phones and raise significant privacy and surveillance risks; Leonardo’s SignalTrace plan to augment ALPR cameras with Bluetooth/phone/wearable tracking; WhatsApp detecting NSO Group spyware activity in violation of a court order; a critical vulnerability in Zcash’s Orchard shielded pool that could allow minting ZEC (now patched); reporting that the U.S. milt./
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- 2026-06-16T07:24:12Z
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