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Is there any reasonable/not a huge pain in the ass way of paying for your phone contract without it being in any way tied to your real identity? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by communism@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've gotten prepaid sims for things but obviously that's not really a feasible method for your main life phone.

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[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

They have your identity the moment you put the sim in the phone. The phone have unique identifiers that are recorded when sold.

[–] pirat@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Buy the phone used and/or with cash. And never put any SIM card in it that can be linked back to you or someone you know.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

All the apps on your phone have access to the phone identifier. As well as other information, like your Google account. It's pretty trivial to tie a phone to you.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

As long as you keep to FOSS apps that you KNOW are private (you can tell which ones call home), you should be OK. For example, Lemmy with a throwaway email address, Simplex for communications, Mull with a shitload of blocks, Orbot with RethinkDNS, and so on, you're golden. Buy your phone in a different country, on Ebay with a throwaway account and a prepaid credit card.

There's a lot you can do to remain truly anonymous.

Now, my threat model does not require me to go to those extents, but you get the point.

[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 1 points 4 months ago

If someone really wanted to find the person, I imagine they'd find where the signal is coming from for that device, and just narrow from there. If it always goes to/from where John works and lives, it might well be John's phone.