A new FCC know-your-customer plan would require ID checks to buy a phone, ending anonymous burner phones. Privacy groups call it misguided.

Burner phones may be a thing of the past as a new FCC proposal will require carriers to collect a customer's name, address, ID number, and alternate phone.

Burner phones may be a thing of the past as a new FCC proposal will require carriers to collect a customer's name, address, ID number, and alternate phone.