Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

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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[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In Japan, a lot of things don't take calls from VoiP (+81-050-xxxx-xxxx) numbers. Certain businesses and such won't accept them as contact info, either, as I discovered trying to rent my first apartment by myself.

[–] psychonova@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

oof yeah :| Twilio has pretty much made half a business model out of promising that you can refuse VoIP numbers using their APIs soo it's a real thing