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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?

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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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LucidBoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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where i live, you can buy a sim card that you can then charge by buying codes on kiosks. no identity needed, all cash

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drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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They got video of you buying them, though

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

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pirat@lemmy.world
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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.

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tiredofsametab@kbin.run
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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.

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sunzu@kbin.run
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That would require law enforcement to obtain the recording and have a reason to do so

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drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I mean, yeah? If I’m buying anonymous phone credits, the police probably has a reason to go looking for me.

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