I seem to remember a discussion here on HN a few years back about a paper which outlined ways to decouple technical identifiers from personal identifiers on mobile networks.
My memory is a bit hazy but maybe it was the whitepaper for PGPP[0] that OP mentioned?
I don’t think it’s possible to align incentives in favor of rolling out such a statement in the US without another coup.
Re:Burner Phone 101
by coderatlarge on Monday August 25, 2025 @04:09AM
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isn’t detailed information about the user equal to additional billing power? perhaps the only disincentive that exists to having that information would be such overwhelming risk/liability that it would outweigh the profit potential of having it in the first place. it seems to me the relative incentives have reached a oretty stable equilibrium…
Did you ever get to the point of hypothesizing good ways to align incentives to make this happen? It is hard to tell (having not thought much about it) whether this is a “smart well meaning engineers need to make new standards” problem, a “we need to harness the power of corporate greed problem,” or something else.