I’ve visited Australia as a traveler, apparently I’ve heard that “burner” phones over there are not really anonymous since they literally demand for ID (WTF? That defeats the purpose of it being classed a burner phone) otherwise they aren’t allowed to sell it to you, what’s meant to be a ‘disposable’ phone turns out on buying a regular one when you consider the fact they ask for driver’s license prior to finalizing the transaction.
Don’t even talk about SIM cards for BP, since that too is subjected to KYC in Australia as I’ve learned. They want to harvest data such as driver’s license & residential address (for citizens), or passport info / flight confirmation (return ticket) if you’re a traveler. Without those things: vendors can’t legally sell you a burner phone, so: DON’T BUY A BURNER PHONE IN AUSTRALIA. Their method of acquisition defeats anonymity.
There’s options out there, yes, but you have to go look for it. The way I got my burner was buying a google pixel (for graphene os,) with cash and then putting it on a pay as you on a cash-funded visa got card
Verizon happily hooked me up.
(I use the phone for going to protests and such things.)
Buying a phone anonymously is easy, you can do that in every phone store.
It’s the sim card that’s the problem. if you pay for your service with VISA, it’s not anonymous.
As I mentioned in my original comment…. It’s specifically a visa gift card.
Which you get by paying cash and reload by paying cash, with no information given. Verizon just goes you the sSIM card when you set up on their service. (And the only real reason to do that is so I don’t have to go into their stores all the time.)
Thanks for the explanation.
You can buy a sim card and service for cash at most drug stores and Walmart
OK, that’s USA then,
I don’t think you can do that legally here in Denmark anymore.Edit:
I looked it up, and I was surprised to learn that actually you can?