Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Joseph Cox securely on Signal on +44 20 8133 5190, Wickr on josephcox, or aim is to thwart current bulk data collection in the network, which have centered around IMSIs and IPs,” Paul Schmitt, a researcher from Princeton University and who is behind PGPP along with Barath Raghavan from the University of Southern California. But if you want something that lets you use phone networks a little more comfortably, PGPP could be an interesting, if still in early stages and sometimes buggy, option.ĭo you know about any other privacy focused phones, or new methods of phone tracking? We'd love to hear from you. PGPP probably won’t help entirely against targeted attacks-the developers are clear in that this is not the intent.

In my testing it seems the service might be suited to those who want to add an extra layer or two of protection to their data and identity when using mobile phone networks. The tool certainly does not solve the issue of privacy on phones as a whole-that problem is complex, with multiple parts such as the operating system, the hardware, and more-but it could help protect against the sort of persistent surveillance that everyone is subjected to by simply being connected to a phone network. This is PGPP, or Pretty Good Phone Privacy, a new pseudo-phone network that aims to add an additional layer of privacy on top of traditional and surveillance heavy telecommunications networks.

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