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by blintson 5898 days ago
This could easily be worse than ACTA. This is basically the first step to making anonymous communication illegal.
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Not sure what you mean... incorrect CLI is completely different from withheld CLI - from the bill:

(2) PROTECTION FOR BLOCKING CALLER ID INFORMATION. — Nothing in this subsection may be construed to prevent or restrict any person from blocking the capability of any caller ID service to transmit caller ID information.

Also - there is no such thing as anonymous calling on the PSTN network. Your providers know exactly who called from where - even if the destination doesn't get full set of information. Unless the providers are completely incompetent, there's going to be a way to recreate the whole path based on logs from every interconnected node. (not sure about US laws, but in most countries if police requested that and the provider couldn't produce it, they would be fined)

You can buy voip services from a company in country X too, then send some legit-looking paper saying you're paying bills for the number 001555555555 and in many cases they will be glad to allow you to use it. Then you can continue your scamming. This bill doesn't stop any illegal uses of id spoofing really.