# Phone in hand...how to maximize privacy with MVNO--gift card?

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**Created:** [August 26, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.braxtech.net/t/phone-in-hand-how-to-maximize-privacy-with-mvno-gift-card/2052 "2025-08-26T17:07:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![ChinPerfe](https://community.braxtech.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@ChinPerfe](https://community.braxtech.net/u/ChinPerfe)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://community.braxtech.net/t/phone-in-hand-how-to-maximize-privacy-with-mvno-gift-card/2052/3 "2025-08-30T15:04:16Z")

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I’m not sure an MVNO will accept a gift card (I was thinking Tello).

Of course, I’d have to also then have an anonymized address to which they could send the sim card.

And I don’t mean to conflate [“security” with “privacy”](https://community.braxtech.net/t/privacy-risks-of-using-personal-sim-card-on-brax3-vs-calyx-hotspot/1537/11), but I can’t help associate them together (a pathway to building a dossier on every human is governments paying these companies for the information they’ve hoovered…until we can get Western Civilization back to its God-gives-us-unalienable-rights-and-governments-are-instituted-among-men-to-_protect_-those-rights, every little assertion of agency _has_ to be taken.)

I’m not saying we can go back to the early days of the internet where privacy was a needle-in-the-haystack issue, but I also don’t want to knowingly march like a cow to the meatpacker.

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