At this point, I think I’d switch to a flip phone.
Maybe I’d use Signal from my desktop and my contacts might actually download and use it .
If we’re a assuming this is implemented by the OS, then a different OS. If implemented by a carrier, then I’d obfuscate my data through a VPN and possibly other tools. I’m already on a different OS and VPN so not much would change.
e: I guess a vpn wouldn’t work if this was implemented by a carrier, but neither would a flipphone. At any rate, since the privacy community keeps coming out with tools, it would be a matter of time before a new workaround came out.
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For the unaware, it was possible until now to get a smarrt phone in USA without showing any kind of ID. But that may be about to change. The current FCC wants to require companies to collect gov IDs for ppl to give them cell service.
If this were to happen I think I would go back to a landline phone and a smartphone with no SIM.
don’t worry they’ll come for that next. getting away with one thing just gives them justification to do the next.
before long you’ll need government ID just to be accepted in an ambulance or seen at a hospital.
I wouldn’t use a phone.
International VoIP?
Having thought about how I use my phone: pics, music, shopping list.
Replace the phone with a very thin pocket camera, a mp3 player, and a paper notebook.
Now if I can continues using my current GOS enabled Pixel. Remove my eSim and use public WiFi and/or SilentLink with SimpleX. Its been weeks since I made a phone call and I mostly keep VoIP active for Signal and medical appointments. I can use the landline for the medical stuff.
How is VoIP necessary for Signal?
Its the lowest cost way to have a phone number in my country. Isn’t a phone number necessary for Signal?
I’d maybe get a small laptop and go around with that instead. Also flip phone.
Do you mean to make a phone call? Or to use the Internet?
It’s anyway stupid, you need your ID for the contract with your ISP, means they anyway have your ID, in last years even with a prepaid phone.
I would probably just fake it.
Flip phone still has Android on it. There are no dumb phones.
You’re going to have to vaguely doxx yourself here. There are plenty of places on this planet where you can’t legally get a “burner” without providing ID.
Depends on how you define phone but I would probably have to for work
But also I wouldn’t touch it with my personal shit
I already deleted most of sociql media from my phone so idk. If an actual phone required an id then id just buy a pager or something like that since i dont really use my phone nowadays
I’d give my government ID.
