> Penalisation under a "KYC" law would have to be extreme.
Yep. It would have to be enacted in the kind of furvor like existed around 9/11. But, the PATRIOT act had been floating around DC for years before 9/11 too.
> And I suspect there'd be all kinds of challenges to such a requirement.
> Again, the Good Sam loophole is huge.
In the US, it really isn't. It's a patchwork of state and local laws that could absolutely be invalidated by the feds in the case of a global communications medium like the phone network, since that implies interstate commerce.
By "huge" I mean that the plausible set of circumstances in which someone loaned out a phone for a call is large.
It's one thing to put leverage on the already marginal. Another to haul upstanding citizens off for offering a stranger a phone call. Resistance would be huge. No matter how weak any perceived legal shield would be.
Yep. It would have to be enacted in the kind of furvor like existed around 9/11. But, the PATRIOT act had been floating around DC for years before 9/11 too.
> And I suspect there'd be all kinds of challenges to such a requirement.
> Again, the Good Sam loophole is huge.
In the US, it really isn't. It's a patchwork of state and local laws that could absolutely be invalidated by the feds in the case of a global communications medium like the phone network, since that implies interstate commerce.