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went to my first protest today :33 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Your phones manufacturer or carrier can be subpoenaed for the location, cops can seize it and identify and/or extract data from it, and IMSI catchers are often used at protests. If you need, you can buy a burner phone and prepaid sim just for the protest.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

If you need, you can buy a burner phone and prepaid sim just for the protest.

But can you buy it without a credit card or debit card tied to your name? A lot of places around me have made it so you must have a traceable type of payment to be able to buy a pre-paid phone. They won't let you pay for it in cash.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Could you use a $100 prepaid card like a Visa/Vanilla Wallet card?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Not sure, I haven't tried that route. That seems like a simple workaround, however, so I suspect they probably don't allow it with pre-paid cards but I could be wrong.