>I wonder how people might obfuscate or rotate their IMEIs, to prevent this kind of tracking and collation?
Spoofing your IMEI won't do much considering it's tied to your IMSI (sim card). You'd need a burner phone + burner SIM for actual anonymity.
Spoofing your IMEI won't do much considering it's tied to your IMSI (sim card). You'd need a burner phone + burner SIM for actual anonymity.
That or leaving your phone at home during protests. Of course, that won't help with automatic face recognition software that the Iranian authorities most certainly have set up in place already, but that's the rough deal of living in a tech-heavy society.
Havent give this too much thought yet but it could work.
Still the way the government acts there this would probably just incriminate others who have nothing to do with their cause.
There's a rumor that you only get 5 within 1 year before you get flagged. Never tried to verify, but I wouldn't be surprised.
One idea that came to my mind is what stops someone from using a foreign SIM with roaming? Assuming of course the SIM isn't tired to your identity?
SIM tower triangulation is only accurate to a hundred meters or more in a large city.