| This level of automatic tracking would require all players (VOIP company, network providers (eg, via wifi), cell phone companies, Google + Facebook + Apple, along with significant tracking effort... Just to find out that phone #5 is Pete. Whilst it could be done, things aren't quite that far along yet. Further, I believe you are presuming I intend to remain unknown from all parties. I believe you, and a few other commenters here are jumping to an extreme interpretation. My goal is to cut automated tracking. A key example may be photo radar, and those license plate covers which make plates illegible (presumably). In this case, should a police officer, or the government in general want to track you, yup, they could. For example they could go through video looking for you again. Your exact car. Including, the covered plate! It really wouldn't be that hard to do, but it would take time. Effort. However, plate readers are networked, and databases are being kept of car movements. Having that plate cover breaks this automatic tracking, even if a dedicated person may want to track. So you raise the bar. You remove automation. And that's the guts of it. Because profitability in this business is won by doing a few simple things, and then collecting massive amounts of data. Remove any degree of automation, and it is no longer profitable to track someone. I bought my phone with cash, my sim card, my minutes with cash, used a fake address and name, signed up to Google with a different fake name, bought a play card with cash, which was basically zero effort for me. I do this whenever I buy a new phone. A new, clean slate. I then, using my already existing infrastructure, only allow people to reach my mobile via a voip number. Done. Yet everyone here thinks this is loads of work, with zero benefit. Welp, I disagree. |