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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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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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[–] drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean, yeah? If I'm buying anonymous phone credits, the police probably has a reason to go looking for me.

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Act itself is not illegal... Police wouldn't care un less you are already on Santa's list... But it would not be police either but rather internal spooks who track that list.

[–] drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't need to be illegal for you to end up on a list of people they check up on

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah but you already need to be on the list for them to check at all

And even then I doubt they would. They got limited resources. with that being I have no idea about your threat model.

If it involves over zealous glowies, this comment section is prolly a bit too rookie to properly comment. Also this things are very geo specific as each jurisdiction will have their own KYC regs and compliance practices.

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

Most accurate comment so far.