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In the US you can buy a SIM card and activate without providing any information at the airport. At least in NYC. I was really surprised the first time

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Why were you surprised?

Not who you were responding to, but most of the western world requires IDs already. The US is an outlier on this issue.

I don't think that's true. At least not in the European countries I visit.

It’s a EU wide requirement

I dunno. I can go to Tesco in Ireland and the UK (fine, UK is not EU no more, but still Europe) and get a sim without ID.

Nordics, Baltics and a couple of other countries are the places this still works. The rest of Europe is locked down.

You’re right, I was mistaken. A proposal circulated to have an EU wide ID requirement but it went nowhere. So it depends the country

Because I’m from Europe, and we need to provide an ID to get a SIM card

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