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Chile collects your IMEI to get a sim card.

• dzink 4y ago
  AT&T does too for prepaid cards. If you pull the card out of an iphone to try it in an Android or vice versa it blocks the card.
• initplus 4y ago
  They also will know your IMEI the moment you connect to the cell network.
  • refurb 4y ago
    But they might not know who it belongs to.
    • justsomehnguy 4y ago
      Only if you somehow acquired a SIM card which doesn't 'belong' to anyone.
      • refurb 4y ago
        It’s pretty easy to do in a lot of countries. The US doesn't require ID to buy some pay-as-you-go SIMs. Of course, you could probably determine identity either from video cameras or, more likely, people using the phone and connecting to various towers, but you if you were diligent you could make it really hard.
• Ptchd 4y ago
  I'm pretty sure the USA also collects all IMEIs...