If you live in the US, you may be more concerned than ever about what happens when law enforcement shows up at a telco and demands information about your account.
https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier-sign-up-with-nothing-but-a-zip-code/
@evacide This new phone carrier lets you register anonymously with just the street you live in! Huh? Wait a minute...
@evacide let them have my data....the phone is unlocked.
@evacide I used to just get prepaid phone cards and never had to give up any information to activate service
I suspect this will only survive as long as T-Mobile.
@evacide can someone pm me the .onion? I wanna read more about it. Ty!
@evacide "By asking users for almost no identifiable information, Merrill wants to protect them from one of the most intractable privacy problems in modern technology" my man re-invented PAYG*
* depending on your country of course, some countries require final user data before activating the line
** also ignores the whole cell tower tracking thing
@evacide I don't suppose you have a gift link for us folks without a Wired subscription?
