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>This list of countries should tell you everything you need to know

Not sure that part is all that meaningful. e.g. Pretty sure the UK and EU can already link my biometrics and SIM

In what way? In the UK you can go to your local tesco or other big shop and grab a prepaid SIM card very easily. In fact, my university’s CS Dept used to have a bowl full of £5 prepaid SIM cards that sat in a bowl near the entrance.

Then I would be more worried about which radical extremist would use it to plot the next terror attack. With some proof of ownership of the sim one would atleast have a human trace. Sure terrorists these days use satellite phones but giving away sims on a bowl without any proof of ownership is just lowering the entry barrier.

You can pay homeless or poor people to buy anything you want. Was pretty common when I worked at att. Granted that was for fraud with leased phones but if they just wanted a sim card with no connection to them it would work fine.

It doesn't feel great but it doesn't feel awful. In Australia (admittedly a place that people already label as authoritarian) you need to provide DL or passport to activate a SIM, and those are already linked to biometrics so this doesn't feel like too much of a reach.

But I guess some hellish future exists where telcos start selling/capitalising biometric info, so yeah...

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