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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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.

[–] Sylver 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

If you go with the burner phone, do not turn it on anywhere near your home. Preferably only at the protest location.

Also do not reuse it