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.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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.

[–] Sylver@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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.