The submission title is "In 2024T-Mobile will start monitoring SMS and fining users for violations", yet there's no mention of "monitoring" in the article, even though that may be a consequence of these policies.
Every cell network already monitors SMS traffic; it's how they enforce requirements like "responding with 'STOP' really makes the other party stop."
(SMS is not secure. It cannot be made secure. It should not be used in any context where the contents of your messages shouldn't be read or modified by arbitrary third parties.)
The guidelines in question[1]. They seem to be from 2020, with copyrights as early as 2007.
Without expressing a larger opinion: many of the individual restrictions on commercial SMS activity seem reasonable, e.g. forbidding use of the T-Mobile network to advertise payday loans (Page 18).
“T-mobile will start monitoring SMS and fining users for violations” is not the title of the article and doesn’t seem to be what’s communicated. It looks like to me this is about commercial customers who use the network and is an increase in fines.
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Without expressing a larger opinion: many of the individual restrictions on commercial SMS activity seem reasonable, e.g. forbidding use of the T-Mobile network to advertise payday loans (Page 18).
[1]: https://www.t-mobile.com/support/public-files/attachments/T-...
dang, can we change submission title to non-editorized version?