Invisv's Pretty Good Phone Privacy service

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I’ve been seeing a lot of news about this privacy-centric mobile service. Most articles are like press releases but this one includes more info.

This Privacy Service Tries to Prevent Your Cell-Phone Carrier From Tracking You | PCMag

The service is not cheap, requires eSIM devices, has no phone number thus no calls or SMS/MMS, uses AT&T for the backend virtual carrier.

Sounds like a list of cons but at the same time some pros. No carrier tracking, randomized IMSI, relaying (multi-hop) traffic (VPN really).

Figure if one wanted to start off fresh they could get a Pixel, install CalyxOS, Graphene, or some other unGoogled OS, the PGPP service, and something like JMP.chat (to have a number people can call as well as send SMS/MMS) to have what sounds like a pretty good private setup.

INVISV | People First Privacy

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For those who like to read debates, discussion, legalities, pros, cons, etc. there is quite the discussion on ycombinator (Hacker News) regarding PGPP and related matters. Quite interesting.

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Notably eSIMs currently require Play Services or microG for activation.
And the eUICC stack is obviously proprietary.

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Yeah. I was reading some info about that at the Graphene GitHub regarding that.
It’s like for every upside of something there’s a downside. sigh

In general I prefer to set up a ROM with neither Google nor microG. The day when eSIMs can be used without neither, something like PGPP would seem pretty good.

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