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> Google wants a mobile phone number, which of course defeats the point. Can't you just pick up a pre-paid sim card in a corner shop? You get a "burner" phone
by spindritf 14y ago
> Google wants a mobile phone number, which of course defeats the point.
Can't you just pick up a pre-paid sim card in a corner shop? You get a "burner" phone as a bonus.
- 1337biz 14y agoI guess the problem here is the "convenience" factor. Reaching an acceptable level of privacy seems to be taking more and more effort.
- loeg 14y agoYeah, inconvenient security isn't useful.
- DanBC 14y agoThat geo-locates you to a cell phone tower. There is probably a bunch more stuff that anonymity-keen (tin-foil-hatters) people will mention; CCTV from the corner shop when you buy the phone and the sim, whatever you use to buy the phone and sim etc etc.