Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.
He’d sometimes come across anti-surveillance hard-liners determined to avoid giving any personal information to cellular carriers, who bought SIM cards with cash and signed up for prepaid plans with false names. Some even avoided cell service altogether, using phones they connected only to Wi-Fi.
So if this is already possible, what is his new company providing that’s new?
So if this is already possible, what is his new company providing that’s new?
What’s the problem he’s trying to solve?
Signing up with a fake name is not the same as not requiring a name to sign up.