16 Groups Warn FCC’s New ‘Robocall Plan’ Is Really About Dramatically Undermining Privacy

16 Groups Warn FCC’s New ‘Robocall Plan’ Is Really About Dramatically Undermining Privacyfrom the anonymity-matters deptBack in May I noted how the Trump FCC had unveiled a brand new plan to “stop robocalls.” Worse; buried in the Trump FCC plan are several initiatives that would harm U.S. privacy and help ICE and other government domestic surveillance efforts. The biggest being a plan to crack down on burner phones by forcing telecoms (the ones bone-grafted to our domestic surveillance operations) to dramatically scale up the information they collect from consumers. Further, the FCC is responsible for protecting privacy of customer information through its telecom privacy provisions and laws like the Safe Connections Act. He’s more into broadly gutting corporate oversight at the behest of monopolies, dismantling the First Amendment, and expanding domestic surveillance — especially of vulnerable populations being targeted and brutalized by ICE.